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Evers' widow Myrlie produced a 1,500-page transcript of the earlier trials, though prosecutors had previously said that all known copies had disappeared. Then Beckwith's long-missing rifle mysteriously turned up in the garage of DeLaughter's father-in-law. Finally, two black witnesses are expected to place Beckwith in the vicinity of the shooting. Beckwith is fighting extradition to Mississippi. A hearing is scheduled...
...account by London-based Amnesty International is crucial because it has dramatically affected the world's most important audience. Days after reading the 82-page report at Camp David, George Bush was still talking about it. "I ask you to read half of it," said the President during an interview with TIME in the Oval Office. "If you can't stomach half of it, read a quarter...
...there's a question about the moral purpose here, I really urge people to read this report. It's going to have a devastating effect. And there are comparisons between this and what happened when ((Hitler's)) Death's Head Regiment went into Poland. I'm about 200 pages into a 950-page book. It's a history of World War II. And the reason I made reference to the Death's Head Regiment is that it was very clearly spelled out what happened. They came in after the original troops and inflicted the same kind of brutality...
...plot has been faithfully rendered by screenwriter Michael Cristofer, and director Brian De Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...
...GREAT AMERICAN REVISION The literary world has been waiting for New York writer Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul since a 2,000-page manuscript was delivered in 1976. Brodkey, who began writing the book nearly 30 years ago, has been revising and arguing with publishers ever since. His "exploration of American consciousness" is now due in late...