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...Arab-American charged with murdering Jewish extremist Meir Kahane two years ago was found innocent on all major counts even though witnesses provided overwhelming evidence that the defendant was the man who pulled the trigger...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: In Search of Justice in Juries | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...matter of who the trigger people are and who's running and who's catching and who's blocking. I don't care what you put on the drawing board, it's not going to work unless you've got people at least as good as the opponent...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ivy's Offensive Innovator | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

There's Bananas Shaughnessy, Artie's sick wife, who likes to play dog: "I like being animals. You know why? I never heard of a famous animals. Oh, a couple of Lassies--an occasional Trigger--but, by and large, animals weren't meant to be famous." Various nuns, Hollywood types, the son of the Shaughnessys and a man with a straitjacket add to the general melee...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Well-Built House of Blue Leaves | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Without Pity | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

CAPTAIN ROBERT MARASCO, WHO pulled the trigger, said the bullet that killed Thai Khac Chuyen made the sound of a "tire puncture" and splattered "blood, skull and bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terminating A Double Agent | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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