Word: murderers
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...Questions, let's see, up first is up front." Alan L. Keyes '72--the arch-conservative Republican presidential candidate--is taking questions after a fiery stump speech. He's spent the past half hour attacking "the radical homosexual agenda" and condemning abortion as murder...
...religious right--"people of a very traditionalist orientation," as Lichenstein puts it. Despite the Protestantism of conservatives in the American heartland, Keyes, a devout Catholic, still finds a passionate common ground on issues that religious conservatives see as nothing short of Biblical. "Alan deeply believes that abortion is murder," Lichenstein says. "In this sense, he and John Paul II--you would find no difference between them. Because of the depth of his belief, he could not possibly do otherwise...
Watching reactions to the first day of the Amadou Diallo murder trial in Albany, it was hard to say what caught people more off guard: The diversity of the jury or the speed with which the closely watched case is proceeding. According to TIME columnist Jack White, who's covering the trial in the upstate New York capital this week, we can thank the presiding judge for these happy surprises. "Judge [Joseph] Terisi is extremely efficient - he has complete control over this trial," says White. "He's responsible for the speedy selection of jurors and also for diversity...
Last month Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth became the first active National Football League player to be arrested for murder. Already there's a second. Ray Lewis, a $7 million-a-year linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens, had plane tickets to fly Monday from Atlanta to Honolulu to participate in this Sunday's Pro Bowl. Instead of boarding a jet, he was arrested and held without bail for the stabbing death of two men outside an Atlanta nightclub Sunday...
Amadou Diallo was killed by four New York City police officers in February of 1999 as he entered the vestibule of his apartment building and reached for his wallet. And as jury selection begins in the murder trial against those four police officers, the cause of death is not up for debate; instead, both the defense and the prosecution will focus on the officers' intent when they pulled their weapons. There's some damning evidence working against the police: Diallo's body was riddled with 19 bullets of the 41 fired in total. And although the officers say they stopped...