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Like Americans everywhere, the local residents of Dixon and Davenport fumed and spatted about Prohibition, which brought violence even to Davenport: the mysterious shooting and murder of Bootleg Kingpin Nick Coin on the street after raids on sub rosa saloons...
...tourist on Mexico City's tree-lined Calle Amberes in the Zona Rosa shopping district might wonder if he is suffering from the mile-high altitude. There at No. 9 is a brand-new Cartier boutique, its windows agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. But only eight doors away, at No. 15-C, is another Cartier, its windows also agleam with shiny gold jewelry, trendy tank watches and glistening leather goods. What is going on? The answer is that No. 15-C is a phony Cartier, and that No. 9 is the real...
...characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although in his case that is like reversing an oak into a nutshell): John Jasper, choirmaster, lusts after Rosa Bud, betrothed to his nephew Edwin Drood. When Drood disappears, a young rival for Rosa Bud, Neville Landless, is accused of murder. Because no body is found, Landless is released. Enter the ostentatiously mysterious Datchery, an old man with juvenile energy. Is he disguised? Is he a detective...
...include mental flashbacks rooted in combat experiences, guilt pangs and feelings of helplessness. While not all authorities believe PTSD is very different from the shell shock or combat fatigue suffered by soldiers in earlier wars, those who do cite the uniqueness of Viet Nam. Says Jeffrey Steinberg, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who parlayed a PTSD defense into an acquittal for a client accused of assault: "The vets were viewed by the public as baby killers, as a bunch of losers. They found difficulty in justifying themselves...
...divorce that apparently triggered a 1979 outburst by former Marine Charles Pettibone. He went to the Santa Rosa office of Congressman Don H. Clausen and was distressed to find him out. He held a knife at a security guard's neck for two hours until FBI officers got him to surrender. Attorney Steinberg got Pettibone acquitted on the argument that a sense of helplessness had catapulted him back to his Viet Nam days, rendering him effectively "unconscious...