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...accused of beating to death their illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Hedda Nussbaum spoke in a firm, clear voice. What emerged was a bizarre tale of violence, drug abuse, isolation and mind control inflicted by disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg. Asked why she never escaped from Steinberg's thrall, Nussbaum had a simple reply: "I worshiped...
Those words, to which Cardenas appended a signature every bit as baroque as the facade of the town's main church, embodied the new vigor of Mexico's leftist parties and the hunger for change that holds both right and left in its thrall. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the July 6 election that will choose the country's leader for the next six years, is certain to prevail. But the P.R.I.'s 59-year monopoly of political power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also...
...content simply to tell one story at a time. Her fiction typically doubles up, offering both explicit and subterranean tales. On the surface, civilized, well-educated characters move about in theoretical freedom, working out their destinies according to the dictates of reason and plausibility. But actually they are in thrall to hidden forces, submerged patterns, in danger of being swallowed up, say, by the plot of a gothic novel or the rigors of a Socratic dialogue. The outcome of such conflict can be comic or tragic or, when Murdoch is at her best, both. This time...
Gaza has never been anything but occupied territory, in thrall for 500 years to the Ottoman Empire, then to Britain, then Egypt, now Israel. Approximately 28 miles long and five miles wide, Gaza teems with more than 600,000 Palestinians, nearly all of whom fare worse than their 800,000 brethren in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Wedged between Egypt and Israel, Gaza nonetheless appeared to harbor little of the rebellious anger that seethes in the Palestinian towns in the West Bank. But that is changing. Violent anti-Israel protests have rocked the territory over the past two months. Eight...
Washington Attorney Leonard Garment believes reporters are still in thrall to the mentality born during Watergate. The press, along with Congress and the special-prosecutor system, is "caught up in a vast game of 'gotcha!' " he says. "It's how reputations are made." Few journalists like to admit to the dark side of competitive spirit, but it is there. The Register's Gannon observes, "When you see the Herald 'score' on Hart and then a couple of others on Biden, there's a certain amount of feeling along the line of 'I want my big story...