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...Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battle-ground, author Peter Svenson illuminates the importance of this small patch of land in the Shenandoah Valley of northwest Virginia. Svenson does not try to argue that Cross Keys was in some way the most important battlefield of the Civil War. Rather, he reveals how the very elements that make Cross Keys like so many other battlefields also make it unique. In his narrative, Cross Keys becomes a place where the "great themes" of American History were fought out by individuals with their own historical identities on a Sunday in June, 1862. The land...
Battlefield is the story of one man's communion with the land and with history. The book begins with Svenson's purchase of a forty acre farm at Cross Keys in the mid 1980s. Svenson, a professional artist, bought this rural plot as a place where he could regenerate himself and provide a home for his wife and two children. The land itself and its history did not much interest him at first. But when Svenson realizes that the focus of the Battle of Cross Keys took place on his 40 acres, what began as a casual interest...
...Riggs, who was shot in Detroit within days of his return from the gulf. But then the plot twisted when suspicion fell on Riggs' wife Toni and her brother Michael Cato, who were accused of killing Riggs to collect his $175,000 life insurance policy. Last week Judge Vesta Svenson dismissed the murder charge against Toni Riggs, ruling that Cato's confession could not be used as evidence against her because it violated her Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser...
Riggs' freedom may be short-lived. She can be charged again if her brother testifies against her in his own trial, if new evidence is brought or if Judge Svenson's ruling is overturned. Says Wayne County prosecutor George Ward, who will appeal the ruling: "We think even without that confession there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to bind her over...
...figure out precisely why. After all, the first half-hour is simply a reenactment of the TWA terrorist hijacking this past June. Having followed those events fairly closely, I didn't find the dramatization either surprising or suspenseful. When director Menahem Golan showed a clip of the pilot (Bo Svenson) being interviewed by reporters, he froze the footage to make certain that the audience would notice that this was the same image that had appeared on the covers of both Time and Newsweek during the actual hijacking...