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Grumet-Morris was again a victim of circumstance at 11:25 of the first, this time off the stick of Ned Havern. Havern fired a hard shot in from near the top of the right face-off circle that went over the net, hit the glass, and ricocheted straight back into the body of Grumet-Morris, dropping neatly into...
...That was odd, but not the first time that Zhu had portrayed himself as the innocent victim of dark forces. He had long maintained that other officials in Heilongjiang had set him up after he discovered their connection to the bomb-shelter debacle. In a 34-page letter to the court, he described being chained to a hook on the cement floor of a prison basement as interrogators beat him into confessing. "If you die here," he quoted one saying, "your family won't even get your ashes." The official who oversaw the investigation, he went...
...CONVICTED. ARMIN MEIWES, 42, a German computer repairman who killed and ate another man; of manslaughter; in Kassel, Germany. Meiwes was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison. The court rejected a life sentence for murder sought by the prosecutors, ruling that the victim, Bernd-J?rgen Brandes, 43, was a willing participant in his own death...
...budgetary shake-up has already claimed a victim. The Hubble Space Telescope had been scheduled for a maintenance visit next year by space-shuttle astronauts. Now there is no money for the mission, and after 2010 there will be no shuttle anyway. One of NASA's greatest success stories, Hubble will probably wink out sometime...
...judged on the basis of who has the best wife for the job. We are no longer impressed with the notion of the woman behind the man. Lady Macbeth--never a good role model, to be sure--looks less like a brilliant schemer and more like a needy victim of unequal opportunity. In many states, it is now illegal even to ask whether a job applicant is married. Politics is not quite as advanced. Although women are streaming into elected office, plenty are still loyally trailing along after their politico husbands, chatting up voters and practicing their Nancy Reagan smiles...