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...soft sandstone--from thin "slot" canyons 10 feet wide but more than 1,000 feet high, to the magnificent Grand Canyon. Anasazi Indian ruins hide in the sandstone depths. Many species of endangered wildlife live in this wilderness. When the sun sets, the mesas glow fuchsia, gold, violet...
Recently, ELIZABETH TAYLOR's life has been a bit of a bust for sensation junkies. Per fume launches and charity work are fine, but they don't evoke the Liz who made headlines just by quarreling with Richard Burton. So when "ol' violet eyes" announced that she and seventh husband LARRY FORTENSKY were undertaking a trial separation, people seemed less shocked than mildly nostalgic. "Let the tabloid games begin," Taylor said. But the tabs were already busy with fresh quarry--the rumor that J.F.K. Jr. had proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette...
...Massachusetts judge overturned the 1987 convictions of two women accused of sexually abusing some 40 children attending a day-care center in Malden, Massachusetts. "I never, never, never did it," said Violet Amirault, 72; her daughter Cheryl Amirault LeFave was also freed (a son, Gerald, was tried separately, and is appealing his conviction before another judge). The judge argued that the women deserve a new trial because the alleged victims were allowed to testify with their back to the defendants...
Legal correspondent Adam Cohen says a Massachusetts ruling today may influence whether childrenmust face down people they have accused of sexual abuse in court. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton decided that Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, both in jail since 1987, will be retried because the children they may have abused never had to face them while testifying. Courts often make allowances for children, Cohen says, but Barton's ruling, which follows five failed appeals by the women over eight years, "reflects a heightened concern about the veracity of sexual abuse charges that rely on children's testimony. People...
...prestigious, less expensive Eastern Michigan University. While there he joined the ROTC program, cutting a vivid and peculiar figure. "I don't often remember students who were in only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell out of everybody else. Most of the other cadets shied away from him." Freshmen were traditionally evaluated by upperclassmen. The older students...