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OVERTURNED. The conviction of Derek Tice, 36, one of the "Norfolk Four" Navy sailors found guilty of the 1997 rape and murder of a Navy wife; by a judge who ruled that police had violated Tice's Miranda rights in obtaining his confession; in Norfolk, Va. Tice, who is serving a life sentence, and three other sailors claimed they confessed falsely under police coercion. A fifth convicted man--the only one linked to the crime by DNA--says the sailors were not involved. A judge will rule on Dec. 20 on whether Tice should be released...
...resolve an ongoing argument between his daughter and hers soon after the couple married. One of the girls had lots of friends over and complained that her stepsister kept horning in. The other said it wasn't fair to leave her out. The counselor suggested that they make a rule: Whoever had friends over had a right to privacy with them in her bedroom, but if they played in a common area, her stepsister had the right to join in. "This did fix it," Emerling relates. After the child who needed privacy got it, she was more willing to include...
...toilette. It's not just an attempt to personally aggravate the Dear Leader, who enjoys a notoriously plush lifestyle even while many of his countrymen starve. Cutting off the supply of expensive gifts Kim lavishes upon high-level loyalists to ensure their allegiance could undermine his rule enough to force him back to the negotiating table-or so the theory goes. But efforts to deprive him of such baubles are "at best pinpricks," says North Korea expert Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, "slightly raising the premium Kim Jong Il must pay for his goodies on other markets." Even...
...Case for Dividing Iraq" [Nov. 13] outlined the best solution for ending the Iraq war. The attempt to create a unified, democratic Iraq is doomed to failure. Modern Iraq as we know it has never been politically unified; religious and tribal factionalism has been suppressed by the strictly autocratic rule of a British-imposed monarchy or by Saddam Hussein's brutal dictatorship. The new U.S. Congress and President Bush should make the issue of resolving the Iraq war their first priority when Congress convenes in January. Dudley Mann Wakefield, Rhode Island...
...best goalies in college hockey,” she added. “How could you have one on the bench?”WHISTLE BLOWERIn a tightly officiated set of games, Harvard’s familiarity with the East Coast referees and awareness of the recent rule changes might have made the difference. Over the course of the two games, Duluth was whistled for 23 infractions, while the Crimson went to the box only 11 times. And its edge in man-advantage time was not in vain, either, as Harvard cashed in five power-play scores combined over Friday...