Word: smith
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...ended the first phase of the mercifully short trial of Smith for the drowning murders of her two sons, Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months. But Smith must have heard the guilty verdict every one of the mornings she was driven from the Detention Center in York, where she has been incarcerated, to the courthouse in Union, where her past -- and future -- would be revealed. There on the side of Highway 49, a few miles northeast of Union, was the sign for John D. Long Lake...
...night of last Oct. 25, Smith let her burgundy 1990 Mazda Protege slide down the boat ramp at the lake with her boys inside, strapped into their car seats. As she ran up the ramp, the 23-year-old "good mother," as her friends described her, covered her ears so as not to hear the car splash into the water, nor, perhaps, the cries of her children. She then claimed a black man had carjacked her and taken the boys with him, setting off a nationwide manhunt and a string of public appearances by Smith that ended...
...weeks ago, when the double-murder trial began, there was no dispute as to what happened that night at the lake. But the jury was given two very different portrayals of Smith. The prosecution, led by 16th Circuit solicitor Thomas Pope, 32, painted Smith as a calculating, cold-hearted woman who drowned her children to win the affections of Tom Findlay, the son of the owner of the textile plant where she worked as a secretary. In his opening statement, assistant solicitor Keith Giese said, "For nine days in the fall of 1994, Susan Smith looked this country...
...days to present their cases. There was no clear sign as to which way the jury would turn. Witnesses for both sides worked at cross purposes with the attorneys who had called them to the stand. Even the journalists covering the case were split on whether Smith was a bloodless murderer or a tragically lost soul...
Fishy or not, the Baby Bells have outmaneuvered the long-distance carriers at nearly every turn. "There's nothing in the House or Senate bills for the long-distance companies," says Charles Schelke, who follows the telecommunications industry for the investment firm Smith Barney. Part of the reason, he says, is that the Bells had "a much easier sales job because their approach has been, 'We should be allowed to get into everybody else's market at the same time our markets are opened.' That was intuitively attractive and reasonable...