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...Reno shot back in her own speech. "I'm not a thief," she said. "There's been no permanent deprivation."CrimsonTie A. ChapmanJANET C. RENO...
...BOTTOM LINE: In this irresistible tale, Turow proves it is hard to catch a thief when nearly everyone seems suspect...
Brown denies that Venus Envy is autobiographical. "People always think that...But Frazier and I are so different. The character--everything has to come out of the character." At her reading, she described herself as a "thief of souls," crawling into the skins of lots of very different people. Nevertheless, Frazier has enormous similarities to the woman...
Very little in Tobias' boyhood was cute or funny, as he wrote it. He was a snob, a thief, a cheat and, much like the father he barely remembered, a prodigious liar who constantly re-edited his own past and then nearly believed he was, in fact, a crack shot or a swimming champion. His only constant was his beautiful, flighty mother. She had expected to be a movie star. Her father had been briefly rich, and they had lived in Beverly Hills, California. At 16 she had ridden, smiling and vamping, on a float in the Tournament of Roses...
Thirty years ago last week, the Supreme Court unanimously voted in favor of Clarence Earl Gideon, an uneducated gambler and petty thief who insisted on his right to legal counsel. "Any person haled into court who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him," wrote Justice Hugo Black. "This seems to us to be an obvious truth." Over the next two decades the court expanded the protection to apply to all criminal cases and stressed that the representation must be "effective." But today, as defenders of indigents handle...