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...long-standing campaign to have his day in court. A trial could happen if Ray's lawyer, William Pepper, can persuade a Tennessee court later this month to approve ballistics tests on the high-powered rifle Ray is believed to have used--and prove it's not the murder weapon. As King's son Dexter, who heads the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change in Atlanta, declares, "I don't think a trial--if he's granted a trial--will give us unequivocal truth. But at least in regard to new evidence, we'll know more than...
...another display of Simpsonesque criminal trial procedure now in vogue, the latest version of the Crown Heights trial came packaged along with its very own variation on the police conspiracy them--apparently the defense argued that an investigating police officer put the bloody murder weapon into his pocket...
...Democrats' war on Gingrich took a dubious turn last week when they rolled out a new weapon: electronic eavesdropping. First, the history: on Dec. 21, Gingrich gave the House ethics committee a statement admitting he had given it wrong information--inadvertently, he said. He agreed not to launch a G.O.P. spin campaign to refute the charges. But then he appeared at least to bend that promise in a conference call with G.O.P. leaders, when he strategized about the content and timing of the statements they would put out. Congressman John Boehner joined in by cell phone from Florida; a scanner...
...There was a group of individuals who were actively working against my ability to facilitate student change on the committee, and their weapon was my personal life. I removed myself from that situation because my resume isn't as important as achieving student change," Haynes says. "But I didn't want to step down at all because being chair of the Student Affairs Committee was the job I'd always wanted...
...Keefe soon found himself on English Bay aboard Ray Loewen's yacht, the company's secret weapon in the subtle art of funeral-home acquisition. Traditionally, the funeral industry has been dominated by family-run operations. Even now consolidators own only about 10% of America's 23,000 funeral homes, although these tend to be prime properties in key markets and account for an estimated 20% of the country's funerals. Wooing the owners often involves a good deal of soft salesmanship--chats over coffee and impromptu visits to talk about "succession planning," the industry's euphemism for transferring ownership...