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...land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system was in "crisis...
...uneven as it was under the Menotti regime -- ranging from the spectacular (Irish actor Barry McGovern in I'll Go On, a mordant one-man show derived from three novels by Samuel Beckett) to the mediocre (Hans Werner Henze's tired exercise in late-'50s avant-gardism, Der Prinz von Homburg) to the risible (the washed-up soprano Renata Scotto singing the role of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier). Still, Spoleto seems on course to become one of the nation's most important and enjoyable arts events...
...World-to say nothing of the nine children's books he co-authored with his wife Priscilla, with whom he had five children of his own. When Otto died of cancer last week at age 66, he had just completed a monumental study of the military Von Moltke family of Prussia and Germany and was hard at work on a book about the Victorian...
...primary challenge for Harvard in this match was containing Brown's star player, Alisa von Hartitzsch. The Crimson utilized a full-court press defense for the majority of the game, but this proved largely ineffective, as von Hartitzsch victimized the Crimson for an astounding 10 goals...
Junior Ana Dujmovic and senior co-captain Erin Pyka led the Crimson with four goals apiece, while von Hartitzsch's 10 led all players...