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...Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens rejected the plea: the case "is not going to jump ahead of the line and be handled any differently," he said, and Nifong said it could be next spring before it comes to trial. However well people understand the desire for a speedy trial in this case, what serves the interests of defendants does not necessarily serve the interests of justice. The state has an interest in finding out what really happened that night off campus. Abiding uncertainty does not make for a gripping TV show. But somehow in these very public cases that...
Countless baseballs bear DiMaggio's signature. Rarer is this ball signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 and cherished by DiMaggio as "the only two autographs I ever sought...
...peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush...
...Perennial Democratic Presidential candidate Richard Gephardt is an earthling whose body has been taken over by aliens: "I keep expecting him to reach under his chin and peel back that immobile, monochromatic, oddly smooth face to reveal the lizard beneath." For Hertzberg, who was Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, Ronald Reagan's genius was to "paste a smiley-face on Armageddon's grinning skull." An American liberal, he combines the verve of Joe Klein with the precision of Michael Kinsley. Few in deadline journalism consistently display Hertzberg's grace or humor...
...score a trifecta by beating a Republican incumbent in the South, hobbling him as a possible presidential candidate and boosting the fortunes of one of their White House wannabes. That's the weighty challenge for novice politician Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam vet and a senior Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who is challenging Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia...