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...hand and death in the other and weighed the two. To me, death is my only route to freedom." Doris Ann Foster speaks from a small cell at the end of a third-floor hallway at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, a small town midway between Baltimore and Washington. A heavy door marked "Maximum Security" isolates her not just from the outside world but from other prisoners as well. She is on death row and could become the first woman ever to be executed by the state of Maryland...
...counter of the Anchor Bar, a shadowy grease pit midway between the offices of the Detroit News and the rival Free Press, where journalists mingle in the legendary camaraderie of the trade, a Free Press employee looks up at rows of photographs of Motor City reporters, lawmen and politicians and says, "I think you have to be dead to be up there." That is certainly true of one picture; it shows a building that once housed the Detroit Times, a Hearst daily that shut down in 1960 and threw the city's two surviving papers into a decades-long...
BELA LUGOSI DIED MIDWAY through the shooting of his last film, but that didn't stop his directors from replacing him in the final scenes with an actor who looked nothing like him. The result was Plan Nine From Outer Space, among the most ludicrous and confusing cinematic concoctions ever. Rod Serling passed away suddenly, too, but that didn't stop a major New York bank from post-humously releasing a T.V. commercial starring him. To bemused viewers, Serling came off sounding farther into The Twilight Zone than he ever had as narrator of the show by the same name...
...Midway through the first ball. Delancy Smith called a time out, as Harvard trailed, 20-4. She wanted her players to call picks So, she used some of the team's depth. Out came five players, and in came live more Harvard started to talk and B.C. scoring efforts slowed...
...Jimmy Carter holed up at Camp David midway through his third year and proclaimed a national malaise. His remedy consisted of new energy programs and new Cabinet officers. Something stirred inside George Washington during his third year, and he left Philadelphia for two months on a tour of the Southern states, meticulously noting the beautiful belles he encountered along the way ("about 70" in Newbern, "62" in Wilmington and "at least 400" in Charleston...