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...unemployed and an admitted drug abuser. When he showed up in court, though, he looked very different from the way he did two years ago. His hair was cut; his face was clean-shaven; his ears were without earrings. He wore a suit and tie and answered questions "Yes, sir" or "No, sir...
...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...
...January the Air Force showed Flinn Zigo's statement, and she knew she had fallen hard for the wrong man, a louse so low he makes George Costanza look like Sir Galahad. Zigo, whom she swiftly kicked out, had lied about nearly everything: his birthplace, his age, his marital status, his probation on wife-beating charges. The ring he gave Flinn was the same one he had given his wife. He even lied about his soccer career...
...wiretap recording soon after the attack, Fortier boasted to a friend of making money by being the government's star witness. But over the past two days in court, in a new suit and haircut, the clean-shaven Fortier answered many questions with a polite "Yes, sir." When Jones challenged the transformation, Fortier shot back: "Of course I'm changing my language. I'm not going to sit here and curse in front of all these people." While Jones may have succeeded in casting doubts on Fortier's credibility, the jury is unlikely to forget Fortier's powerful testimony yesterday...
...squeeze the...Penrose Pattern? Makers of toilet tissue trumpet their product's softness, durability and economy, but what about a white embossed paper, above left, that both celebrates the solution to one of the great conundrums of modern science and appears bulkier despite using 15% less paper? In 1974, Sir Roger Penrose, the esteemed Oxford mathematician, devised a geometric pattern--dubbed the Penrose Pattern--that demonstrated for the first time that a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature, above right. Then one day Sir Roger noticed that the design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue bore a striking...