Word: fates
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...trial, apparently took a look at a lineup that included Graham and told police, "He's not in there." Many defense lawyers maintain that a single eyewitness's testimony should not be enough to convict on a capital charge: Several lawyers called on to pontificate over Graham's fate brought up the recent case of a rape victim who positively identified her attacker and was absolutely sure of his identity. The alleged rapist was sentenced to life in prison - and was later was exonerated using DNA evidence. This kind of miscarriage speaks to psychological difficulties inherent in eyewitness accounts...
...your report on Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms [WORLD, May 29]: Oh, that fickle justice should have prevailed, leaving us to wonder if the bewildered voters of those great secessionist states would have enthroned Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond to decide the fate of their children, homes and tobacco farms if they had known how long these mucousy old men would stay in office. What twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite...
...library where he works if its card-catalog system is replaced by PCs. Brian Dickey (Peter Falk) is the police negotiator--Columbo raised to the nth degree--trying to talk him out of anarchy. Lee Kalcheim's play, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, sets them dueling metaphorically over the fate of modern civilization. Sometimes his targets are too easy (no more Starbucks jokes, please), but he has written fine, funny parts for the edgy, earnest Alexander and canny, counterpunching Falk. And his ending is a coup de theatre that's both logically satisfying and genuinely startling...
...recognition of each other's legitimacy, which neither side has been prepared to make over decades of low-intensity war and sullen peace. President Kim backed it up with a statement, released to the media, which proclaimed, "Compatriots in the North: We are one people. We share the same fate. Let us hold hands firmly. I love you all." The two men then climbed into a limousine that carried them off to talks at an undisclosed location, reportedly holding hands for much of the journey...
...narrating chores to Eng, the twin on the right-hand side of the pair, who gradually emerges as a convincingly persuasive and heroic presence--intelligent (he reads Shakespeare while Chang sleeps, sometimes resting the book on his brother's forehead) and refreshingly matter-of-fact about his preposterous physical fate...