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...they filed in. "I understand the jurors have arrived at a verdict," said Judge Leggett. Von Glahn rose and nodded yes. The clerk asked: "How do you find the defendant, Jean Harris, on the first count of second-degree murder?" Replied Von Glahn: "Guilty!" He was asked about two lesser charges, second-and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. "Guilty!" he said. "Guilty...
Ironically, the team won on the one point which has troubled it most throughout the season--consistency. "It's not that we overwhelmed top schools, coach Shelley Bermann said yesterday. "We held our own against top schools and fenced incredibly well against lesser ones. We didn't throw a point away," he added...
...Khmer Rouge's reluctant inter national patrons have long sought a more acceptable alternative to what is at best the lesser of two evils in Cambodia. Chi na has quietly prodded the Khmer Rouge to link up with anti-Communist resistance forces led by Son Sann, a 70-year-old for mer Prime Minister. Simultaneously, in a stunning reversal, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 58, who has lived in exile in China and North Korea since he was initially overthrown in 1970, agreed to make peace with the Khmer Rouge and lead a united front against the Vietnamese...
...memo writing. But, alas, there is none for humor. That is the finding of Richard J. Cronin, who heads an executive search firm in Rosemont, Ill. Cronin polled 480 chief executive officers to ask: "Have you found that younger executives (under 35) with MBA degrees have a greater or lesser sense of humor than others?" The vast majority of those responding checked lesser...
From there, Kuttner's narrative takes off in two directions, the lesser known stories of how taxes got out of hand and who benefitted from them. The huge increases in property taxes were actually the result of "reform" of the taxes in 1965. A San Fransisco tax assessor--the man who sets the values at which the homes and businesses are taxed--was found to have been getting kickbacks from certain businesses in return for low assesments, and consequently low taxes. It turns out, however, that the assessor, Russ Wolden, had actually been keeping homeowners' assessments artificially low, and making...