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...garage had been constructed to contain parking spots for buildings built after a 1961 zoning regulation. Neighbors argued the garage was actually being used to park the cars of workers in older buildings and was overflowing...
...fourth work of nonfiction examines both killer and victims -- particularly Gahl's widow and children. Nancy Gahl cannot bear to know too much about Mike Jackson, the author notes. "If he is a man who struggled to contain impulses that more often than not overpowered him, and that no one seemed able to help him understand, then he is different from the rest of us only in the severity of his disorder, not in its content." That is the classic "we are all murderers" defense, and Wilkinson is wise not to push it. He is more effective when he takes...
...police from the streets, such as these found in Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun- control legislation last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able to buy no more than one handgun a month. That should be enough for most amateur gun lovers, but not for the black-market professionals who have...
Dowling refused to discuss specific charges made by guards. Dowling did say that department records of each guard case would prove he did not discriminate against employees, and he also said those files contain "personal and confidential" information that may not be released...
...paintings feature brightly colored, voluptuously curved forms which suggest vases, seashells and the female figure. This combination of abstraction and representation recalls the work of Georgia O'Keefe. In addition to these paintings, which she sells, Lichacz creates multimedia pieces that contain more personal significance...