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...next day, Drew remained silent throughout the preliminary hearing, even as he listened to the recitation of his and Mitchell's alleged crimes: five counts of capital murder, 10 counts of first-degree battery. Mitch wept and appeared remorseful. But a single night of jail found the boys outwardly changed. Upon waking, Mitchell requested a Bible, a minister and "some Scripture thought," according to Sheriff Dale Haas. Both boys asked for pizza for lunch. The request was denied, and Drew began to cry in his holding cell, begging for his mother. Said the sheriff: "He wants his Mama...
...former public affairs aide (now retired), who was the first to come forward and who testified that McKinney propositioned her in her hotel room during a 1996 Army trip to Hawaii, shook her head in disgust. McKinney stood rigidly at attention, betraying no emotion. Behind him, his wife Wilhelmina wept, mouthing the words "Yes, yes, yes" at the string of "not guiltys," then "Oh, no" at the lone conviction...
TIME has stood witness to the greater part of the most remarkable century in history. Perhaps more than any other publication, it has watched, wept and sung about the extraordinary people and events of the past 75 years. This week, as we celebrate our birthday, we pay tribute not only to those people and events but also to the varied, vivid form they have taken in our pages...
...ought to have been evident that something very strange was going on when a middle-aged man interviewed on the morning of Princess Diana's funeral told a TV reporter that he had not wept at his own father's death, but he was weeping today. Say what? But this is the way the whole year of 1997 has gone. Every few weeks in the past 12 months, something happened to invite an emotional public reaction of mass grief, panic or elation, often wildly disproportional to the significance of the event. Most of these eruptions had little staying power...
...themselves as remote and isolated from one another at first coalesced around the news and then became the news. Emotions were bulletins. It was a year, in fact, in which however moving or compelling were external events, the public's responses to them were more powerful still. We wept in vast numbers, we cheered, we gasped, and we could not take our eyes off ourselves...