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...will also be a voice for women whose lives many thought were not worth avenging. On Christmas Eve, 1998, citing mounting expenses, Spokane's police department pulled out of the investigative task force it had formed with the sheriff's department. That left half a dozen sheriff's deputies with double the work. Letters to the editor in the local paper suggested they give up. "You heard early on, 'Why waste time on prostitutes?'" recalled Sergeant Cal Walker, chief of Spokane's Serial Homicide Task Force. "If they had been teachers, the dollars would have flowed." As costs mounted, Sterk...
After a dozen years of island life on Maui, Tama Starr decided to return to New York City in 1982 to join the family business, which her grandfather had founded: Artkraft Strauss, known for its innovative Times Square signs--and the giant ball it lowered each New Year's Eve. She hoped to help her father, who had suffered a heart attack shortly after inheriting the business, to develop the company so it could thrive in the coming century. She knew it wouldn't be easy: her dad was irascible, and the place was "crawling with relatives...
...constitutional changes and pressing on toward independence, as many of his supporters want Djukanovic to do, would demand that the Montenegrin government prevent Yugoslavia's presidential elections from taking place on its soil. And that would give Milosevic a pretext to send in his army - right on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, when nobody's going to be in a hurry to make new military commitments abroad. The combination of draconian political laws and a hopelessly divided Serbian opposition has left Milosevic sufficiently confident to seek a fourth term in the fall. He's not exactly feeling...
More abstract and worrisome is the overall message the shows send: that life is an elimination contest, that difference means discord. The Real World is a sort of teen-friendly Adam-and-Eve story--seven young people, set up in a coolly furnished paradise, are bound to screw it up. Survivor and Big Brother change the reference from Genesis to Lord of the Flies and No Exit. But if what they show can be ugly, it's insulting to the audience to assume viewers must take this as a model for life--that's like saying Chinatown is an immoral...
...School of Public Health (SPH) student, Yuan-Chun Wang died in a Christmas Eve car accident in Alabama...