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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...
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...
Dismayed by huge deficits of $100 billion or more projected by nearly all the competing resolutions, but unable to agree on any combination of spending cuts and tax increases that would hold the red ink even to those figures, the legislators fragmented into splinter groups. Conservatives would accept no big...
Nowhere was that intensity more evident than in the House of Commons, where angry Conservative demands to "get on with" a counterinvasion vied with pleas from the opposition Labor Party to avoid precipitate action. Bolstered by a poll that showed the public in favor of a full-scale invasion, Thatcher...