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...working class beginnings in Lowell, Mass. to his eventual post-breakdown return to New England. Spliced in between are Kerouac's confrontations with the big city, his chaotic ventures through the U.S. that led to books like On The Road, and his encounters with members of the personality/literati circuit which included William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso...
These past few years a couple of sportswriters on Florida papers kept bumping into each other on the sportswriters' circuit, and when their workdays were done, they tended to talk baseball, a shared passion. In time these discussions moved beyond the esoterica that baseball nuts adore. Instead they became romantic, roseate, starry-eyed dialogues on the notion of owning their own team. Then last November, the romance died. They bought a ball club...
Convicted on more than 50 counts of fraud and racketeering, Cook County Circuit Judge Richard F. LeFevour, 54, faced a possible 300 years in prison and fines of $103,000 when he appeared last week, gaunt and obviously unwell, for sentencing by U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets...
Isaac then appealed to the higher court. Its 27' page decision, released late Monday by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Frank M. Coffin, not only reinstated the case, but also will force Skinner to reconsider whether Harvard must reveal confidential information on tenure cases. In his decision, Coffin asked Skinner to review anew Isaac's request and to explain more thoroughly why it was originally denied...
...classical pianist. She would have chamber concerts with her musician friends, in the living room, while in another room my father would be conferring with nine or ten other men in the business about how to build a computerized mousetrap. These opposite life-styles would give me circuit overload. My tweeters would burn out and my only insulation would be my bedroom door, which remained closed for most of my life. I had to put towels under the jamb so I couldn't hear the classical music and the computer logic. My bedroom was like all the rooms...