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Michael Jackson and Madonna turn 40 this month. We evaluated how far they've come in life...
...Johnson and Andrew Golden, now 14 and 12, were found "delinquent" for blasting away at fellow students outside their Jonesboro, Ark., school in March, killing five and wounding 10. They got the maximum punishment possible for kids their age: they will be confined by state juvenile authorities until they turn 21. But it's worse than it sounds: Johnson's father was horrified at the thought that his boy would be sent to the Alexander juvenile facility, a place where abuse and molestation are said to be rampant...
...Williams & Connolly, David Kendall's firm, says Ruth, "they litigate every case the same way, and that's hardball. Give 'em nothing, tell 'em nothing, delay, fight at every turn. But when you're defending the President, you can't run a defense like you would for a private citizen," he says. Result: "Just like in the White House, after all the attacks, the prosecutor gets his own bunker mentality and starts to figure, O.K., this is a war." And by the time the White House began attacking Starr for zealotry and moonlighting and hiring aggressive deputies, Starr felt...
...writing while sitting in a living-room chair with its back at an angle to a picture window. The midsummer morning light strikes my legal notepad. August has slipped in like a lover. Every once in a while I turn toward the window and see, over my left shoulder, a tall pine tree that has split into two trunks at its base. The dead lower branches have been severed, leaving large tan coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades...
...American President since Nixon during the Watergate crisis. Kendall may be a brilliant attorney and a fierce negotiator, but he is no student of history. Stonewalling does not work. Kendall has allowed Clinton to back himself into a corner. The right advice is to come clean. Kendall has helped turn an incident that was equivalent to a minor Watergate burglary into a reason for impeachment. STEPHEN W. OSHINSKY Monte Sereno, Calif...