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BRITAIN: The speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, has chosen not to wear the traditional wig, but the sergeant at arms still wears a sword. Verdict: Classic with a twist. The sword, while not practical, shows commitment...
Charles Fournier, a former army sergeant and nursing-home administrator who was accustomed to bossing people around, used to swear he would kill himself before he'd let anyone put him in a nursing home. So he was almost as baffled as his wife was when, after two strokes, he chose last year to live in one. Even this hardened military man couldn't resist a place with 40 birds, 25 rabbits, 12 cats and four dogs living there, noisy kids at an on-site day-care facility and committee meetings to attend to help run the place...
...pulled out of the investigative task force it had formed with the sheriff's department. That left half a dozen sheriff's deputies with double the work. Letters to the editor in the local paper suggested they give up. "You heard early on, 'Why waste time on prostitutes?'" recalled Sergeant Cal Walker, chief of Spokane's Serial Homicide Task Force. "If they had been teachers, the dollars would have flowed." As costs mounted, Sterk called a town meeting to drum up support for the inquiry. Relatives of victims spoke out, telling how their daughters or sisters, many of whom came...
Cambridge Police Department (CPD) Sergeant Lester J. Sullivan said one of the robbers barked "give me all your money" as he stuck a small black handgun through the window. The victims complied, handing over pagers, keys and wallets containing credit cards and $150 in cash...
DIED. CHARLES MACGILLIVARY, 83, dauntless Army sergeant who received the Medal of Honor in 1945 for destroying four German machine-gun nests during a one-man mission in the Battle of the Bulge; in Boston. The Canadian native lost an arm while silencing the last of the enemy emplacements...