Word: sin
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Then there is Peru, where the CIA is reportedly linked to the feared National Intelligence Service (SIN), which has been accused of killing 17 people in Lima's Barrios Altos in 1991 and causing the disappearance of nine university students and a professor in La Cantuta in 1993. SIN's purported mastermind, an attorney who is President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence adviser, has represented a number of major drug traffickers in court...
Catharsis has come to Union. Perhaps, as her lawyers contended, the jurors decided that Smith has suffered, and will continue to suffer, enough. Perhaps defense attorney David Bruck's final biblical admonishment--"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"--echoed in their ears. Or perhaps they simply reached the cold understanding that killing Smith would not bring those two little boys back to life. Perhaps the jurors could not erase their memories of testimony about Smith as a child and as a sunny young mother on the streets of their small town...
...jurors are members of the same community that she had angered and betrayed last November when her nationally-televised pleas to find the missing boys' kidnapper turned out to be stagecraft. In his closing argument, defense lawyer David Bruck quoted the Gospel of John: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Says Towle: "This is also a religious community with an anti-death penalty feeling. You cannot deny, when you sit here, the emotional ties people had with her, or with some member of her extended family. Bruck knew exactly what...
...electric chair would only compound the tragedy of her sons' deaths. The most wrenching moment, TIME's Lisa Towle reports, came when Beverly Russell, Smith's stepfather, declared his remorse for years of sexual abuse. "If I'd known at the time what the result of my sin would be," said Russell, formerly a leading figure in the Christian Coalition, "I would have mustered the strength to behave according to my responsibility." In cross-examination, Russell admitted that his sexual relationship with Smith continued until weeks before the boys were drowned last November. "Their point is that it must have...
Jack E. White's cynicism notwithstanding, the action of the Southern Baptist Convention in asking forgiveness from blacks for its role in defending segregation was very significant [DIVIDING LINE, July 3]. You know Baptists are serious when they use the word sin to describe racism. True, Baptists should have repented long ago. True, they could have been key players in the civil rights movement. But they didn't, and they weren't. The past is deplorable, but it is also irreparable. Are we to go on hating one another forever? The real tragedy would be if blacks took as long...