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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lacking any fingerprints). Sources say the relative weakness of the case was the primary reason the district attorney chose not to seek the death penalty. Still, few expect Markhasev to receive much sympathy from a jury in such a well-publicized case and with such a sympathetic victim. Markhasev's reported habit of making incriminating statements to his jailers will probably not help either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMISTAD IS IMPORTANT. DISCUSS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...other, but Sprewell's attack won him a year's suspension--and the services of Johnnie Cochran. Now the streets are filled with cries of "Free Spree!" And the coach, who is no more a psycho Patton than Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes, must be wondering how an assault victim could become the perp. Advice to P.J.: This is hardball. Press charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TOP SPORTS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...assistant, who found the S.S. Horace Bushnell and voila (pardon my French), instant history. As details trickle out about Lawrence, we all say how could we not know? Those selling ambassadorships, of course, don't want to know. And it's in the nature of lying that the victim remain fooled. Lawrence was a master. He took his lie to his grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIES MY AMBASSADOR TOLD ME | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...sure, seldom rise above pleasant kitsch. Jekyll & Hyde is a sluggish retelling of the famous horror tale with hair-flinging histrionics by star Robert Cuccioli; The Scarlet Pimpernel is so cheesily staged that the hero's main feat of derring-do is to pose as a plague victim so all the villains will flee in fear. Yet Wildhorn's music has enough muscle and melody to lift the material and the spirits. He can get our blood flowing with a rousing fight song (Into the Fire in Pimpernel) or brighten a brittle critique of social mores with an infectious melodic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: GRABBING HIS MOMENT | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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