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...fourth work of nonfiction examines both killer and victims -- particularly Gahl's widow and children. Nancy Gahl cannot bear to know too much about Mike Jackson, the author notes. "If he is a man who struggled to contain impulses that more often than not overpowered him, and that no one seemed able to help him understand, then he is different from the rest of us only in the severity of his disorder, not in its content." That is the classic "we are all murderers" defense, and Wilkinson is wise not to push it. He is more effective when he takes...
...General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field...
...Clinton Administration may choose to keep the embargo against Vietnam. On the other hand, Clinton could side with those who believe that if he renews relations he will complete the painful process of healing. Bay Lop's widow is ready. "My husband died for our independence," she says, "but my son has studied English. If he could work for a new American consulate here, I would be glad...
...kind of evidence that would be accepted by the New England Journal of Medicine, but it struck a nerve. Viewers tuned in to hear David Reynard, the Florida widower, tell the story of his wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that...
...appearance at Howard University Monday,Clinton joined a program in remembrance of theslain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.,including King's Widow, Coretta Scott King, andhis son, Martin Luther King...