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...attempt to persuade jurors that although they've convicted his client on 11 counts in the most devastating terrorist act ever on U.S. soil, Timothy McVeigh does not deserve the death penalty. It's an almost impossible task after prosecutors spent two and a half days building a succinct and horrifying case that jurors should do exactly that. Witness after witness piled on details so gruesome that lawyers, journalists, U.S. marshals and members of the jury all wept: How, after the bomb went off, the floors of the Alfred P. Murrah building pancaked on top of each other. How rescuers...
...first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges, was succinct: "They'll try to get rid of me -- a knife in the back and that...
...wave of sports media is evolving to the shorter, more succinct style: The blue bar flashing across the screen on ESPN2, the quick-hitting stories on the Internet, the often-accessed wire story page even The Crimson uses every...
...patrols would police the shattered city. In another couple of days, he promised to produce a permanent political solution to Chechnya's bid for independence. Never mind that similar plans have come and gone in the 20-month war. Claiming credit for the deal, Lebed offered perhaps the most succinct analysis of last week's real struggle. "No one has given anyone any powers," he said. "You simply have to take them. As I am quietly doing...
...favorite books is Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity because it "articulates a version of moral perfectionism at the levels of both personal identity and political organization which conveys a succinct yet illuminating account of the main obstacles to further democratization of our daily lives...