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...those odd confluences that keep cults and conspiracy theorists percolating, the day after the bodies were found Charles Manson was up for and denied parole for the ninth time at Corcoran State Prison. "These monks that just took their heads in San Diego," Manson noted at his hearing, "they're way behind the times." But cult experts disagree. What happened in San Diego, they say, was unprecedented. James Tabor, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was involved in the last desperate attempts to communicate with David Koresh by radio broadcast, says, "This group...
...ambitious city and state plan to make over 42nd Street, long the area's most notorious thoroughfare. As the sleaziest strip in the sleaziest part of town, the stretch of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues was from the late '60s until just a few years ago the ninth circle of Times Square. "You could buy anything you wanted, whether it was drugs or girls or boys or green cards or telephone cards. You really felt like you were walking through this hellish zone," says Cora Cahan, president of the New 42nd Street Inc., which is overseeing the restoration...
...Crimson printed an article, "Salem Man Recounts 350-year Family Tree" by Abby Y. Fung (news story, March 5) which details the remembrances of William Russell Burns. The article is full of historical inaccuracies. As a reference librarian, genealogist and ninth-great-grandson of Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, I want the record set straight...
...next day lightning struck again as Harvard knotted the score at 1-1 in the top of the ninth before Stetson scored the game winner in the bottom of the inning...
...Hurricanes cut the Harvard lead in half in the bottom of the ninth inning to add some drama to the contest. But Kalyvas came on in relief of Hogan and struck out Walker to end the game and start the celebration...