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...first singer in years who has the vocal heft needed for the massive Wagnerian roles that were once owned by Lauritz Melchior. No operatic appearances in 1998 were as eagerly awaited as Heppner's Lohengrin at the Met and Tristan und Isolde at the Seattle Opera, and the critical verdict was passionately positive. Small wonder: the Wagner excerpts included on his latest CD, Ben Heppner Sings German Romantic Opera (RCA Victor Red Seal), are by turns warmly lyrical and resplendently powerful...
...jury did a more deliberate version of the same thing, and it was Smaltz who got zapped. After an exhausting seven-week, 70-witness trial, the jury took just nine hours to short-circuit his case against Espy, rejecting all 30 remaining counts of a kitchen-sink indictment. The verdict was not just a repudiation of Smaltz's four-year investigation into gifts Espy received from people his department regulates. It could also be read as a repudiation of the very statute that made Smaltz's wild prosecutorial ride possible. And when that independent-counsel statute comes up for renewal...
...There was never any doubt in my mind. I'm thrilled with the verdict. It just shows that the right thing was done," said defense lawyer Mark Berthiaume...
Neither Coates nor Marshall was in the courtroom when the verdict was read...
...expose issues of racial segregation and inequality. "Someone who comes away from the show thinking that they've seen the 'black perception' of the Rodney King Beating, or the 'Latino' perspective on police brutality will have missd the point completely," she says. Though the Rodney King verdict and the ensuing riots have all but vanished from the discourse of this university, discredited for their sensationalism, Twilight reinstates their importance in the struggle for equality. In the theater, finally separated from the distortion of the TV screen, the story of the riots comes clear and speaks more powerfully about America...