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...make their move. There have been unconfirmed rumors of plots around Mardi Gras," which culminates next Tuesday. In Haiti to help prepare for the June elections, former President Jimmy Carter was joined today by his partners in peace, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and former Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell...
Acting as his own defense attorney in a bizarre trial, the man accused of murdering six people in a shooting spree on a Long Island commuter train wrapped up his case today by telling the jury that survivors of the massacre conspired with police to implicate him. Colin Ferguson''s closing argument came after the judge refused to permit testimony from a defense witness who allegedly told the prosecutor that authorities used a remote-controlled computer chip in the 37-year-old defendant''s brain to manipulate his behavior. Charged with shooting 25 people on a crowded train...
...strategist. ``Others could still jump in, but we probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors. The wild card: Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...wore a lawyerly tie and brown tweed jacket and spoke in a jurist's measured tones. He was sufficiently rational to raise objections that were then sustained by the judge. Yet it was not too long into the first day of the trial last Thursday when Colin Ferguson, lawyer, mused publicly on the 93 charges against Colin Ferguson, defendant, and the audience at the Nassau County, New York, supreme court got a taste of the sort of down-the-rabbit-hole experience they were in for. Leaning informally on a lectern, peering down earnestly at the jury, the Jamaican native...
...Visit Bleak House. Ferguson's courtly legalisms--``Did there come a time . . .'' and ``Is it your testimony that . . .''--and his formal complaints of ``Hearsay!'' or ``Leading the witness!'' chimed very oddly with the preposterousness of his core thesis, expressed in an eerie third person: ``The evidence will show that Colin Ferguson was in fact a well-meaning passenger on the train . . . Like any other passenger, he dozed off--having the weapon in a bag. At that point someone . . . took the weapon out of the bag and proceeded to shoot...