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Throughout the 13-month trial, the 15 Israeli defendants had worn self-assured smiles. The men described themselves as defenders of Jewish rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Although many of them admitted their guilt, they seemed confident that they would be acquitted by an Israeli court. The crimes of which they stood accused, they declared, had been committed in response to terrorist acts by Arabs. But last week, when a three-judge panel found the 15 guilty on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to conspiracy and possession of arms, their certainty gave way to shock...
Harold M. Agnew's elbows make a pair of wings for his head, on top of which his hands fold in a clasp. The elbows are covered by suede patches sewn onto a brown tweed jacket. The collar of his brown polo shirt is worn over the jacket collar. There is a Western-style belt of silver and turquoise, and something of a belly: the paunch of a man of 64 who was an athlete 40 years ago. He looks like Spencer Tracy now. His desk looks like a pile of raked leaves. On walls and tables...
...best of my recollection, I have never even worn tweed, nor have I seen more than maybe two students at a time ever wear said material at any of the sporting events I’ve ever attended...
...MTV’s website over a three-day period, garnered nearly 10,000 respondents with an average age of 19.2 years. About three out of five said they have felt ringing in their ears after coming out of a concert or club, but only 14 percent have ever worn earplugs...
...before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life to her. He made a pilgrimage of thanks to Fatima, and the near fatal bullet was fitted into a jeweled crown worn by her statue. In 1983, out of the same wellspring of faith, emerged an act of stunning virtue: his forgiveness of Agca in the would-be assassin's jail cell...