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Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick has now re-examined the old tale, after digging up just about every scrap ever written about it. In the Heart of the Sea (Viking; 302 pages; $24.95) is a spellbinding yarn, and, like Melville's classic, awash with human frailty...
...scrap the Miranda ruling now would overturn decades of precedent and dozens of previous Supreme Court decisions. The court has thrown out numerous state convictions since 1966 on the premise that suspects' confessions are inadmissible if they are not first read their rights. If the Miranda warnings were not required, America would risk returning to an era when it was much more difficult to determine whether a confession was truly voluntary. Before the decision, suspects were occasionally held in isolation for extended periods of time in the hope that they would confess. The Supreme Court was forced to decide whether...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms vowed to block any new arms control agreements by the Clinton administration, while presumptive Republican presidential nominee George Bush said he'd reject any agreement that bound the hands of the next president from cutting his own deal, and also vowed to scrap the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty if Russian failed to accept amendments that would allow Washington to build its politically popular "Star Wars" national missile defense system...
Four scantily clad men and women trudge through the mud, their faces and bodies camouflaged with leaves, desperately hunting for a scrap of meat in the dense jungle. They communicate with their hands, a language only they know, a language they invented so that they don't scare off dinner. Suddenly, a man in the pack yelps and falls to the ground. The other three panic, not knowing what's wrong. Did he step in a ditch and sprain his ankle? Or had he been bitten by the Sea Krait water snake, the world's most venomous serpent? The experts...
...business skills to turn Miami into "Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties to such communist regimes as China and Vietnam...