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Jurors claim that they disregarded the riveting tales of Steinberg's sadism told by Nussbaum, who testified for the prosecution in return for dismissal of all charges against her. To many who followed the trial with horror, the question of her complicity in Lisa's death -- and in her own degradation -- remained unanswered. Even observers who were moved by Nussbaum's condition were appalled by her testimony that she did nothing when she suspected that the girl had been sexually abused...
...family discovered the hulking wooden chair in the basement one summer morning about 25 years ago. The arms and legs were deeply scarred from the heavy metal apparatus once tightly fastened to it. It was, I announced to my parents' horror, the electric chair, liberated the night before from the ancient and abandoned Connecticut state prison. The Chair was too big a prize for high school kids to pass up. Sitting in it brought my imagination to life, as if I were its next official guest. My teenage sensibilities told me this was something people should...
When Patrick Purdy sprayed 100 or so bullets from a rapid-fire assault rifle into a crowd of children outside a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, killing five students and wounding 29 others and one teacher before dispatching himself with a pistol, he set off a national wave of horror. If tots playing innocently in a schoolyard at recess are no longer safe from heavily armed criminals and lunatics, who is? Many citizens concluded that no one is, and some on the West Coast resolved to take action. Their solution: to arm themselves for survival in a world seemingly gone...
...thousands of "rare" or limited works; this was art sleaze, surrealism pathetically embracing the ethos of the Franklin Mint. Dali's last years, surrounded by flacks and barracuda (from whom he was, to put it mildly, not protected by his wife Gala, who died in 1982), were a cautionary horror. Several years ago, when his hands had long been too shaky to draw but could still scribble, he signed ream upon ream of blank sheets that now bear forged "Dali lithographs," the pride and joy of suckers from New Jersey to Brisbane, Australia...
...second paragraph, the author announced that the anti-abortion movement aims to make abortion illegal and send "thousands of women back to the horror and death of self-induced and back alley abortions or the enslavement of forced pregnancy." Later he argued that "forced reproduction is a shackle on all women preventing their full participation in society...