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...news networks will again zoom in on St. Peter?s reminding us how much is at stake. The cameraman this time will shift just off to the right of the basilica, where a rudimentary chimney will rise up over the Sistine Chapel?Gentleman, has the jury reached a verdict...
...testimony with suspicion, in part because there are too many bad reasons for witnesses to change their minds: intimidation, bribery, misplaced sympathy for an imprisoned or condemned offender. In addition, "there is a preference for finality," says Martin Guggenheim of New York University Law School. "The notion that a verdict can't be overturned based simply on more evidence is part of the American system of justice." Says Harvard's Alan Dershowitz: "The law has a stake in more than this case. It worries about the hundreds in prison who now may be inclined to have people retract testimony...
...latest book of poems; several days later the onetime scourge of other poets slashed his left wrist. He recovered and picked up his normal life. Within a few months, while walking along a North Carolina highway shortly after dusk, he was sideswiped and killed by a car. The official verdict was accidental death; the rumor of suicide arose and persisted. No one will ever know what was on Jarrell's mind during his last moments, but the mature products of a remarkable intelligence are now splendidly available. --By Paul Gray
...bravado undiminished, Konrad Kujau, confessed forger of the notorious Hitler diaries, awaited the verdict of a Hamburg court by scrawling facsimiles of the Führer's signature. Kujau's mood grew more somber when Judge Hans-Ulrich Schroeder declared him guilty, along with former Stern magazine Reporter Gerd Heidemann, of defrauding Stern of $3.8 million between 1981 and 1983. The German weekly had purchased 60 volumes of the phony diaries in what it billed as the "scoop of the post-World...
Those troubles notwithstanding, some experts say that Coke could manage to keep both colas alive, despite the bleak verdict of historic precedent. But, observes Farquhar, "in general, when we have two very similar products produced by the same firm, one is likely to be withdrawn after a period of time...