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While the president acknowledged that the year had been filled with horror and tragedy, he stressed the positive accomplishments of the University...
Judge Lance Ito ruled that theO.J. Simpson jurywill be allowed to see the gruesome autopsy photos of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The judge ruled over the objections of defense attorney Robert Shapiro that the pictures would cause "revulsion and horror" and unfairly inflame jurors. Prosecutors had long contended that the photos, which graphically illustrate how the victims were killed, were essential to their case. It is not yet known when the prosecution will present the pictures to the jury, which slogged through yet another day of often tedious DNA testimony from criminalist Collin Yamauchi...
...arrest brought the first spell of relief from the fear that had gripped Japan for two months. The nation had been holding its breath, worried that another horror would occur before police built their case against Aum. On May 5 a cleaning woman in Tokyo's sprawling Shinjuku station found a hydrogen-cyanide gas bomb before it went off. The device had been placed near a ventilation duct that would have spread the gas quickly. It was potent enough to have killed 10,000 people...
...maternity hospital in late March for a caesarean section. When she got home her incision began to bleed. Then her organs began to melt. The red-black sludge wiggled out of her eyes, her nose, her mouth. Soon her parents got sick. Her father, some villagers believe, died of horror: he told his wife that if she died, he would die too on the next Friday. And he did, followed by another daughter, then two sons, and a nurse who had helped tend them...
Costner surely hopes Waterworld returns him to top-star status. The film's trailer suggests a high-voltage adventure with a mythic overlay; James Earl Jones lends his patriarchal voice to images of hope and horror. Jones can also be heard promoting Judge Dredd. His voice is one of many summer-trailer talismans, along with '60s songs, computer imagery, sexual facetiousness of the sort pioneered by James Bond films, and a lot of urgent I-love-you's. In Fluke, one of the summer's few kids' movies, a boy whispers...