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Prosecutor (reading the verdict): On the basis of the actions of the members of the Ceausescu family, we condemn the two of you to death...
...more humiliated and ashamed than anybody could ever imagine." The judge was unmoved. Her attempt to charge off as business expenses items ranging from a $12.99 girdle to a $1.2 million pool enclosure for her mansion was the "product of naked greed," he declared. Helmsley is appealing the verdict, but as she left the courtroom, one of the little people had the last word: "There goes Marie Antoinette...
...ever be punished for the murder of N.A.A.C.P. field secretary Medgar Evers, who was gunned down in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Indicted in the killing was Byron de la Beckwith, a segregationist whose fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. But all- white juries twice failed to reach a verdict, and Beckwith went free...
David Mamet's principal occupation is writing bruising plays (Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow) and film scripts (The Verdict, The Untouchables). Not surprisingly, the characters in these works are defined by what they do, not what they say. If their words count, it is because Mamet counts their words, using as few as possible to make his point and move his plot...
While another flare-up was averted, reaction to the verdict split along Miami's racial fault lines. Hispanics said the officer was being sacrificed to appease blacks. But in the Overtown ghetto, the site of January's worst rioting, some residents marched in celebration. "This is what the black community has been waiting for," said Overtown resident Alice Johnson, 43. "Justice...