Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No one was more aware of the risks than Reagan. He drafted a prime-time TV speech to be delivered this week if the House and Senate are ready for a showdown vote on a tax and spending-cuts package that no one really likes. He postponed a vacation trip...
Normally, that is all there would have been to it, and the nasty, sordid little murder would have taken its place in local lore. But now the case may also earn the defendants a permanent niche in law-school textbooks, plus a place on death row. The reason is an...
The defendants, of course, are claiming that a second trial would violate the Fifth Amendment's double-jeopardy clause. The rule, as the Supreme Court reiterated it in 1975, is: "When a defendant has been once convicted and punished for a particular crime, principles of fairness and finality require...
Despite all that the Catholic Church did for him, Herrin is now an atheist who has "retired from religion." Interviewed by Meyer after he had spent three years in a medium-security prison, he insists: "I think I've served enough time to compensate." Others would side with the...
Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92...