The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Wednesday - A federal judge said Wednesday that the man who shot former president Ronald Reagan could make unsupervised visits with his parents away from the mental hospital where he has lived for more than two decades. John Hinckley, 48, has lived at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington since he was acquitted in 1982 by reason of insanity in the shootings of Reagan, presidential press secretary James Brady and two law enforcement officers. Reagan was nearly killed and Brady was permanently disabled. Hinckley said he shot Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster. London - U.S. President George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein deserves the "ultimate penalty" for his crimes, but he faced objections from Europe, the United Nations and the Vatican, which are adamantly opposed to the death penalty. But while most European countries have abolished the death penalty, it's not clear how vociferously they would object to a death sentence for the captured Iraqi president. Taipei, Taiwan - A spilled test tube containing a SARS sample likely infected a medical researcher who wasn't wearing gloves or a gown, the World Health Organization claimed Wednesday when the scientist was diagnosed as the first case in months. The WHO and national health officials doubted the case would start an outbreak, despite fears that the disease might return with the onset of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
