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...Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective who played a critical role in collecting evidence at the crime scenes--and whose mind, judging from the taped monologues he made for a would-be screenwriter, is a storm of racial fury. But Cochran set off his own kind of racial tempest when he used his closing arguments to call Fuhrman and another Los Angeles officer, Philip Vannatter, "twin devils" and to compare Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler. More than that, he urged the jurors to see a not-guilty verdict as an opportunity to send a message against racism and police misconduct...
Hurricane Luis, a 700-mile-wide tempest with winds as fast as 175 miles per hour, is expected to hit Puerto Rico late today or early Wednesday. For days, frightened residents and tourists have been crowding airports and air charter companies. "Everybody here is kind of frantic," reports TIME's Lorelei Albanese in San Juan. "Bottled water is almost completely sold out, and batteries and other supplies are being snapped up as soon as they are put on the shelves." Albanese says the ferocity of the storm has reminded many Puerto Ricans of Hurricane Hugo, which caused more than...
...tempest that has wracked ATF's Chicago field division gives a flavor for the forces long at play within the bureau. The division, one of ATF's largest, has been riven with charges of corruption, sexual harassment, racial discrimination and management retaliation. Two veteran agents, Diane Klipfel and her husband Mike Casali, now face imminent discharge; they claim in a federal lawsuit that the bureau took the action in reprisal for their having reported corruption and sexual harassment, including allegations that police officers assigned to ATF had stolen money from a drug dealer. Prompted by their disclosures, investigators from Treasury...
DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England...
...women introduces herself to the audience. But the traits of the characters which be prelude conveys would be obvious in any case. And the inclusion of some really banal lines does not help. [Of tea] "We Japanese women drink a lot of it... Become it... Swallow the tempest... And nobody knows... The storm inside." One can only express these sentiments so many times after Oliver Stone's movie. "The Joy Luck Club," before they start sounding simply silly...