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...judges threw out North's conviction for destroying government records, ruling that Gesell had made two mistakes in instructing the jury; both were highly technical. More broadly, the panel found that Gesell should have held more extensive pre-trial hearings to determine whether the evidence to be used during the actual trial had been "tainted" by witnesses' recollections of North's congressional testimony, for which he had been granted immunity. Gesell was ordered to conduct hearings "witness-by-witness" and "if necessary, line-by-line" that, said the majority, might "consume substantial amounts of time, personnel and money, only...
...fear, both imposed by Moscow. The beginning of the end came last October, when Mikhail Gorbachev visited East Berlin and announced, almost in so many words, that Erich Honecker was on his own. For a Soviet puppet, that means the end. The juggernaut of unification was under way. Kohl found himself in the driver's seat largely ex officio: he happened to be the Chancellor of West Germany when the Soviet Union let East Germany go, which meant letting it come home...
...leading Japanese politician would have it, Hills is more cute than competitive. Koko Sato, deputy secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, sat next to Hills for more than two hours during a dinner party at the recent Houston economic summit. Sato, 62, told friends he found Hills, 56, "easy to deal with if you lull her with the Oriental way of life and philosophy." He later described Hills to reporters as "charming and cute, just getting on a bit in age." Sato also noted that when he praised her husband, Hills was all smiles. "She is quite feminine...
...story of a man who loses his innocence but faces the challenges with courage, and acts on his conscience and not his fear. His story, as told in the book, is a sprawling account with endless digressions. But like the countryside, where some of the most beautiful sights are found on the off-roads, here also some of the best material is contained in these tangents...
After all, it's summertime. Movies released this season aren't about originality. They're about drawing in big audiences and raking in big bucks. And Hollywood has found recently that in order to do that, it's safest sticking to what's tried and true. So although Quick Change isn't one of the many movies this summer with a "Part II" or a "Part VI" after the title, it might as well...