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...collected $472,000 from her life insurance policy and headed off to Florida with Martin. Three years later, when their money ran out, authorities say the couple returned to Belgium, where Martin met a homely financial consultant through a personal ad. They married quickly, but on their honeymoon in Corsica their car toppled over a cliff. Martin was only slightly injured while her husband died--giving her an $800,000 insurance windfall...
...Luke Woodham, 16, bookish and overweight, drove a white Chevy Corsica up to his high school. That was already a sign of trouble: the young man had poor vision and was driven to school every day by his mother. But three hours earlier that morning, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had been stabbed to death with a butcher knife in the home she shared with her son. Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High's commons, an enclosure created by the school's buildings. He then took a .30-.30 rifle from beneath his blue trench coat and opened fire, wounding seven...
...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
...resort island of Cavallo, off southern Corsica, at least three different explosive devices set off during the night caused extensive damage to 66 apartments and businesses owned mostly by mainland French residents and foreigners. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, but authorities suspect separatist militants who have been seeking to end French rule over the Mediterranean island. No deaths or injuries were reported...
...Glover '94, a researcher-writer for Let's Go: France, encountered a herd of belligerent-looking bulls while exploring the city of Ilerousse, in Corsica...