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...Constitution forbids a repeat trial for acitizen acquitted of a given crime...
...didn't turn out that way. Cliburn was condemned by an adoring public to repeat again and again the concerto for which he won his prize, Tchaikovsky's First, and he never fully developed into a mature concert artist. In 1978, overwhelmed by expectations, crippled by stage fright and exhausted by his celebrity, he stopped performing and holed up in the Fort Worth, Texas, home he still shares with his mother and first teacher, Rildia Bee Cliburn, now 97. He re-emerged in 1987 for a few tantalizing concerto performances. Now, at 60, Cliburn has embarked on his first national...
...WITNESSES. How persuasive the knife-purchase testimony might be in court will depend on what jurors think about the fact that Jose Camacho, the cutlery-store salesclerk, was paid $12,500 by the National Enquirer to repeat his story to them, money that Camacho will split with his bosses. Though Shapiro failed in an attempt to get Judge Kennedy-Powell to suppress the testimony, he could argue to a jury that Camacho and one of his bosses had embellished their story or invented it to make it more salable. "How can you trust an individual when...
...stopping in towns along the way to greet the locals and listen to their complaints. When he arrived later at Blagoveshchensk, he was surprised to see 200 well-wishers. "I didn't expect there would be so many people," Solzhenitsyn said. "I say this everywhere, and I want to repeat it to you: The future is in our hands...
...colored license plate or sticker. This type of marking allows police to pull a driver over at any time to check the status of the license. New York has turned to harsher punishment: a rash of accidents inspired the state legislature to pass a law with escalating penalties for repeat offenders, including fines, criminal charges and as much as 30 days of jail time. A second bill, introduced recently, would increase criminal penalties for vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident...