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...similarity to former president Reagan's amnesia defense is disturbing. After The Independent quoted Lee as saying he "wasn't aware," I asked him how he expected anyone to believe him. He insisted that the heated discussion of ROTC's anti-gay discrimination never penetrated his skull during the council debate. Just as with Reagan, I don't know which would be worse: if he was lying or telling the truth...
...funeral-home director and sometimes even a tow-truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...
...York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have committed 2,000 crimes by the time...
...prosecutor and the surgeons who pieced her back together. Mack was managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit her throat. He dumped Small in her car and left her for dead. Then he took in a movie...
...Soviet journalism. Mikhail Zhvanetsky, one the country's most popular and outspoken comedians, penned a monologue for Show Business. Yuri Shchekochikhin, who works for Literaturnaya Gazeta, co-wrote a piece examining perestroika in the provinces. The Books section features an excerpt from The Place of the Skull, the latest novel by one of Gorbachev's favorite authors, Chingiz Aitmatov. Andrei Sinyavsky, an emigre writer who spent almost six years in a Soviet labor camp, contributed an essay reflecting on whether he would move back to Gorbachev's U.S.S.R...