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...police said they caught the guy but can't pin anything on him because anyone who enters the building is a guest of the person who opened the door for them and not a trespasser," a freshman who asked not to be identified said...
...picked up on Milligan's case and secured a series of interviews with the confused defendant; almost immediately, they realized Milligan's mental state was different, very different, from anything they had ever encountered. Depending on the setting he was in--and on other factors the doctors couldn't pin-point--Milligan would lapse into different personalities. While in his main phase--in which he referred to himself as "Billy"--Milligan could and often did allude to feelings of his other personalities (to whom he referred as a detached observer); his memory of actions those other "Milligans" took was, however...
...flow of events, and mount them on lifeless ink and paper. Our daily challenge as newspaper reporters is not--as the article suggested--to "take events out of the flow of reality and to protray them two-dimensionally," but rather to keep the events ALIVE as we pin them down in words...
...four assassins encountered little resistance in the first 50 seconds or so as security men and military police dived for cover. One attacker raced to the right flank of the stand, presumably to pin down Sadat's security detail, and later joined another assailant, who charged straight to the podium, unimpeded. The two men stood on tiptoe against the wall, guns raised above their heads, firing a fusillade of bullets into the tangled melee of bodies and chairs. A third killer ran diagonally to the left side of the dais. The fourth attacker joined the others as they emptied their...
Before the Dartmouth backline had time to survey the Harvard lineup and adjust to the morning glare, the Crimson struck. Just 1:22 into the contest, co-captain Cat Ferrante split the Big Green fullbacks with a pin-point feed to the streaking Carrillo, who blasted a low drive into the twines...