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With his latest venture into fact crime, Cruel Doubt (Simon & Schuster; 460 pages; $25), McGinniss has swung to the opposite pole. Eleven months after Malcolm's devastating piece, he began to write the story of Bonnie Von Stein, a North Carolina woman who was unquestionably a victim rather than a villain. Her husband was bludgeoned and stabbed to death beside her as they lay in bed at home; she too was battered and nearly died. Despite her injuries, she was unjustly treated as a suspect for many months, as was her daughter. She suffered a mother's worst nightmare when...
...feel like he's paying so much more attention to us," said Amie von Breisen '95. "I'm very impressed. He's very friendly and actually interested in what's going...
...booked for espionage but, astonishingly, was released by a magistrate on $30,000 bail. The magistrate's reasoning: that since Wolf had turned himself in, there was little likelihood that he would try to flee the country. The ruling was promptly appealed by Germany's chief prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl, and Wolf was put in investigative custody. A ruling on the appeal could come this week and set Wolf free...
...Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected...
...Von Raab charged that the Bush Administration had taken a "lackadaisical" approach to prosecuting B.C.C.I. in part because the bank used Beltway insiders such as Clifford and Altman to lobby federal regulators. "If you were to look at the Rolodexes at B.C.C.I.," he said, they would show "the blue chips of Washington influence peddlers." As a result, he said, "senior U.S. policy-level officials were constantly under the impression that B.C.C.I. was probably not that bad because these good guys who they play golf with all the time were representing them...