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Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed...
...early on, says Lieut. Russell Olson, the Beverly Hills chief of detectives, "we had suspicions of the boys' involvement." Police had ruled out a gangland murder because of the sheer savagery of the attack. "Mob killings are 'clean'; this one wasn't," says an officer. Suspicions were further heightened when family members told police that a copy of what might have been a new will had been erased from Jose Menendez's home computer. "The focus became very clear over the past few months," said Chief of Police Marvin Iannone. There was some physical evidence, but "we were waiting...
...inclusion of the five million non-Jewish Holocaust victims in the Brandeis project would not have diminished its effectiveness. In fact, if Poskin's group is relying on the visual impact of six million pebbles to accomplish its goal, it seems that the sheer sight of 11 million pebbles would only hammer home even harder the horrors of the Holocaust. Simple arithmetic, right...
Delaney Smith attributed the win to sheer desire...
What was once considered a lifetime job is no longer such a sure thing. Dismissals of faculty "for cause" -- ranging from sexual harassment and misappropriation to sheer ineptitude -- have risen from virtually zero in the '60s and '70s to about a dozen a year. For the first time in its 123-year history, for example, the University of Kansas is trying to fire a tenured teacher, anthropology Professor Dorothy Willner, 62, who is accused of failing to carry out her "academic responsibilities" and of behaving abusively toward her colleagues and superiors. Says Willner, who denied all the charges...