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...Johnny Paul Penry forced himself into the the house of East Texas homemaker Pamela Moseley Carpenter, 22, raped her, beat her and fatally stabbed her. Before she died, she managed to describe her killer to police. Penry later confessed to the murder. Last Thursday he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. That would hardly be a rare occurrence in the state of Texas: Penry, 44, would have been the 38th man executed in Texas this year, a record for a single state since authorities began keeping track in 1930. But less than four hours before he was scheduled...
...several framed movie posters. There's one from The Exorcist, which is one of Shyamalan's favorite horror films. There's also a poster from Raiders of the Lost Ark, a film directed by one of Shyamalan's heroes, Steven Spielberg. And finally, there's a large poster from Die Hard featuring a sooty portrait of Bruce Willis, who right now is Shyamalan's favorite leading...
...last message to his wife [ESSAY, Nov. 6]. The situation aboard the Kursk should not be trivialized by relating it to existential musings on the subject of why people write. Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov wrote to tell a truth we all suspected: the crew of the Kursk did not die instantly, as Russian authorities claimed. How could Rosenblatt fail to have addressed the issue that Russia does not value life any more today than it did at the height of the cold war? IRENE DRATVER Austin, Texas...
When old friends die, unintended we assign them a rank in our memory. Bob Trout will be in the top row in the memory of anyone who knew him. We were not close friends, but I knew him first in London in 1943 and last at lunch three weeks ago. Walter Cronkite, Bob Trout and I were to have appeared together last Friday at the University of Texas in Austin. Bob called to say he felt unwell. "Unwell" is all he would have said...
...single informant. We use a minimum of three unconnected sources. On some occasions there may be an exchange of gunfire when we're trying to clear out two or three of them and unfortunately innocent people get killed. This is lamentable. If you're asking me if innocents die in this war, yes, they do. But they're a minority. When the guerrillas massacre, most of those who fall are our men in civilian clothing. For us it's the same. We never fire indiscriminately...