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...likely event that Kaczynski is convicted, the defense's plan is to wait for the sentencing phase of the trial and raise his mental condition as a mitigating factor. His brother and mother will then take the stand and tell how his aberrant behavior goes all the way back to childhood. With a little bit of luck, the jury may show some mercy. Kaczynski will probably not like all the talk about mental illness then any more than he does now. But at that point his lawyers will be engaged in a last-ditch effort to save his life. Their...
...embattled government of Kim Young Sam was refusing to explain to U.S. officials just how much money was left in its foreign-currency reserve. Along with negotiators from the IMF, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pushed Seoul to clarify its reserve positions. "If you don't want to tell me, that's fine," Summers advised his counterpart. "But you have to tell somebody." On Thanksgiving, Clinton told Kim Young Sam by telephone that radical surgery was needed to attract foreign investors. But the White House kept the call secret for weeks, lest it spook the markets further...
...water heater ignited the fumes. Last spring, a six-year-old Oklahoma girl stopped breathing temporarily after her mother's boyfriend soaked her hair in Diazinon, an agricultural insecticide. "It's a commentary on how bad the situation is," says Kramer. "Physicians are running out of things to tell people...
Given no choice, I tell myself that within her rejiggered brain cells, in the reconstructed network of 10 trillion nerves inside the hippocampus, the temporal lobe and the parietal lobe, she may discover different kinds of happiness. Perhaps it is oddly fulfilling--the complete use of a brain--to know only that you want to be moved from a wheelchair to a bed. Life consists of small, discrete goals that become the entire universe. Why would she not be furious with me for thwarting her vast ambition...
That may sound daunting, but Don Ohlmeyer, the head of NBC's West Coast operations, will tell you the network has gone through all this before. "At the time Cheers announced it was going out of production," Ohlmeyer says, "there was the same kind of jabberwocky about NBC's vulnerability. Unfortunately we're in a business in which opinions are like TV sets--everyone's got one." There's a difference, though, between five years ago and now. Back then, the show waiting in the wings to take Cheers' place was Seinfeld...