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...BURDEN OF PROOF by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The summer's hottest read by the Chicago attorney and best-selling author brings back Presumed Innocent defense lawyer Alejandro Stern, now faced with the mystery of his wife's suicide, a commodities-market scandal and the realization that justice is never blind when it gets too close to home...
...first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
...ministries of the church" is for the first time elevated to creedal status alongside such fundamental matters as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the soothing assertion that the Holy Spirit "sets us free to accept ourselves" is more akin to pop psychology than to the stern confessions of yore. What would John Calvin...
...Evelyn Murphy, the third surviving candidate, will train their guns on Silber, whom they fear for his brains, bile and ability to dominate the news. Says pollster Gerry Chervinsky: "If he gets going on substance, Silber is going to win." He would be a formidable general-election candidate whose stern morality could draw Reagan Democrats back to the party and attract liberal Republicans...
...Toughlove Summit. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater used the name to stress that Bush would temper his admiration for Gorbachev's goals with stern talk on Lithuania and Germany...