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...will probably never know. The event that began with a whack! has ended with a less-than-satisfying whimper. By plea-bargaining her way out of the tangle, Harding has ensured that she will never have to answer the question that dogged her all the way to the Olympics and back: Did she have a hand in planning the assault on Kerrigan? For her part of the bargain, Harding will pay a $100,000 state fine, make a $50,000 donation to the Special Olympics and reimburse the Multnomah County prosecutor's office for $10,000 in court costs...
...plea bargain surprised and upset many players in the 69-day soap opera. The U.S. Figure Skating Association, which had counted on Harding to head its squad in Japan now that Kerrigan seems to be retiring from amateur sport, hastily tapped national bronze medalist Nicole Bobek to fill the empty slot. That leaves two young skaters with little experience in international competition -- Bobek, 16, and Olympic alternate Michelle Kwan, 13 -- to represent...
...perhaps even worse, inflicted -- they are what we try to escape. The Nazi scheme to exterminate Jews and other undesirables is one such nightmare image; and Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's drama about the man who saved 1,100 Jews from the Plaszow death camp, is essentially a plea by a preeminent popular artist that to remember is to speed the healing. Last week that moving Holocaust memorial became a mobile one, as the film opened in Germany, Poland and Israel -- the three countries where the atrocities were planned, executed and most poignantly commemorated...
...order rival, Clinton set 70 execution dates for 26 prisoners over 10 years; three were actually put to death. To reaffirm his mettle as he ran for the White House, Clinton rushed home from New Hampshire to deny a condemned murderer's clemency plea. The brain-damaged killer barely knew his own identity, let alone the fate that awaited him (at his last meal, he saved the pecan pie to eat later), but Clinton proceeded without apparent qualms. "I can be nicked on a lot," he said afterward, "but no one can say I'm soft on crime...
Senator Bob Packwood lost the battle to keep his diaries secret when Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected his plea to delay transferring the records to the Senate ethics committee pending the outcome of his court appeal...