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Keith A. Leahy, 25, faces six charges, including assault with intent to murder and armed robbery while masked. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment...
...press conference, Boyle said the twosuspects under arrest had been not yet beenarraigned, but would be charged with at leastarmed robbery, assault with intent to murder, andassault and battery, Boyle said...
...case. The disembodied voices that whisper through cyberspace can often be manufactured identities that can disguise, distort or amplify aspects of a user's personality. Fortunately, only a relative few -- Lotharios who woo indiscriminately, for example, or pederasts who prey on vulnerable children -- have a devious and potentially dangerous intent. Most Net users are more likely to project aspects of the person they wish they could be. Paulina Borsook, author of Love over the Wires, calls this ``selective lying by omission''; psychologist Kenneth Gergen, author of Saturated Self, more charitably regards it as ``playing out our other selves...
Friends said Perry was so intent on joining the Air Wing that he paid for his own flying lessons and waited years...
...Private Altars is about more than the strife Vienna is forced to endure; it is about language. In sentence after lush sentence, Mosby is intent on showing the reader that she was primarily a poet before trying fiction. Turn to nearly any page and find an image like this, which describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut...