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...Michael Skakel is innocent," says his attorney Mickey Sherman. "He was innocent 24 years ago. He is innocent today." Sherman is a frequent talking head on Court TV and enjoys the sweeping statement. But his follow-up comment, "The evidence was not strong enough 25 years ago, let alone today," has some teeth. Even Fuhrman believes the case will have to move forward "absent forensic evidence." The Sutton report, while intriguing, seems like a better argument for reopening the case than clinching it. And the credibility of Skakel's former "classmates" at Elan is being questioned. Joseph Ricci, who owned...
...Thomas case is just as devastating, however. The statement "It could have happened to anyone" really applies. The same day that he got into that accident, 11 people died on Kansas City roads...
...University Information Systems, said that the cover was designed during the NATO campaign against Serbia and that "we didn't want to appear insensitive to any of the people affected by the turmoil in Eastern Europe." The intent of the change, she said, was "to not make a political statement." Of course, the move could be said to have backfired, making a simple photograph political. As Row said in an e-mail message, if the designers felt a picture mentioning Serbia "was too volatile for a Harvard audience, they should have chosen another image from the University Archives--an undoctored...
Though Microsoft's lawyers haven't had a chance to make that statement yet, company spokesmen did ballyhoo the AOL-Time Warner deal as proof that the high-tech industries in which Microsoft competes--unfairly, according to the Justice Department--are evolving so quickly and convulsively that to assert Microsoft exerts monopolistic power is "almost comical...
...article "The Necessary Evil?," theologian Martin Marty said, "Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler we remember" [PERSON OF THE CENTURY, Dec. 31]. I took great offense at that statement. I say we forget Hitler at our own peril. He didn't carry out the Holocaust alone. He was aided by people in Germany, Poland, Hungary, France and other countries. Hitler showed how thin is the veneer of civilization. ANTHONY M. D'AGOSTINO Memphis, Tenn...