Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past three weeks in Union, South Carolina, each day dawned blistering and dry and ended sticky. But just as word swept through court last Friday afternoon that the jury was about to come back with its sentence in the Susan Smith case, rain began to fall. And as Smith stood before the judge to learn she had been spared the death penalty, thunder rumbled. Courtroom spectators moved their gaze from defendant to windows and back again. Then, as swiftly as it had begun, the storm was over. A few minutes later, when Smith was led back to prison...
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...
International students not living in eitherCanada or Mexico will not receive the new coursecatalog through the mail, Smith said. Instead,they will have to pick up catalogs when theyarrive on campus in September for registration...
...past, the registrar's office experiencedproblems with international mail; either thecatalog arrived after the students had alreadyleft their home countries or it did not arrive atall, Smith said...
...There hasn't been much negative feedback about[not mailing catalogs overseas]," Smith said."[The catalog] is on-line, so if internationalstudents have some kind of electronic access theycan get it that...