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CHRISTIAN MORTENSEN, 114 PROOF: Danish birth registration. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Sailed to Ellis Island in 1903 on a ship named the United States. VICE: A nice fat cigar. ODDS: Clearly the Establishment pick, but in this crowd he may be just a young...
MARIA DO CARMO GERONIMO, 126 PROOF: Baptismal record issued by the Roman Catholic Church. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Her back bears scars from her 19th century slave master in Brazil. VICE: Only her priest knows. ODDS: The sentimental favorite, but she's never been able to sway the judges in the past...
...Becker may be most informative on stalking, the quintessential crime for an alienated age. A million women and 400,000 men were stalked in America in 1996. De Becker advises stalkees to administer one brush-off and engage in no subsequent contact. Discouragement by a male friend, he reports, usually backfires. Don't change phone numbers--the stalker "always" finds the new one--but invest in a second line, arming the first with an answering machine. "The stalker won't realize you've changed, and you'll have a record of his calls if you need...
...Reno have John Huang. But Fred Thompson clearly wanted immunity for four Buddhist nuns who were at the infamous temple fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore. So on Wednesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance...
Firearms experts for both sides agreed last week that the new test was inconclusive, but the defense investigator who oversaw the test argued that better results might be obtained after cleaning the gun barrel with a wire or nylon brush. Prosecution experts countered that such a cleaning might damage the barrel, tainting its value as a source of evidence. Brown put off a ruling until the parties reconvene this Friday...