Word: stephen
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...same day that Stephen Jones announced he would be defending Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing case, he hired a security firm to protect his home outside Enid, Oklahoma. But that has not stopped the phone calls. Late last week the 54-year-old lawyer received a threat from someone the fbi believes is a known violent offender. "I have to take this seriously," Jones says. "The man said if I represented McVeigh, he was going to send a Ryder truck to my house and blow...
...lawyer Stephen Jones, he has thrown himself into the challenge. His first order of business, he says, is to get his client's version of events. He insists that McVeigh does not resemble the stubborn, arrogant character portrayed in the media. "Mr. McVeigh is articulate and intelligent," Jones says. "He's definitely distressed and anguished about the charges. But when I saw him last, I think he was in good spirits." Jones has not yet disclosed whether he will seek a change of venue for the trial, but does say McVeigh wishes to plead not guilty. "I tell clients, based...
...Wendy has an insatiable curiosity," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, "that routinely takes her beyond groupthink or the easy take on just about any story." Says assistant managing editor Stephen Koepp, who edited the Fargo story: "She has a rare affinity for both people and numbers, which can bring a policy story vibrantly to life...
...because he essentially questions the right of more than 50 percent of Harvard to be educated at this University. I wish to make a very important distinction between my disagreeing with someone politically and my taking offense with their questioning of my very person. Although I disagree politically with Stephen E. Frank '95, who is delivering the English Address, he has not questioned my right to be at Harvard. McGuire, on the other hand, questions my right as a non-heterosexual, non-male to the pursuit of happiness and a Harvard education. McGuire writes in another article that "marriage, properly...
...Stephen Sondheim is among Broadway's best and most daring songwriters (A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George), but his cerebral, challenging compositions possess depths that cannot always be fully explored in the sometimes constraining format of musical theater. Those depths are plumbed here. Each track on Color and Light features one or more jazz musicians performing a Sondheim show tune. Singer Peabo Bryson and saxophonist Joshua Redman join forces on a version of Sondheim's Pretty Women (from the musical Sweeney Todd) that is mature and mysterious, dark and sweet. Grover Washington Jr., with charismatic...