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...Waltham resident was robbed at 57 JFK St. While in the bathroom, the man was approached by a 6-foot-1 inch tall 180-pound black male who brandished a small gold handgun. The robber took $38 in cash...
...fancier precincts of Irvine, Calif., the gumshoes in white moon suits and gas masks looked weirdly out of place. But there they were last Friday digging up the yard of a churchgoing suburban gynecologist who had just committed suicide. And there they were removing--gingerly--six tall plastic canisters full of military-type weaponry, high-grade C-4 explosives with blasting caps, and possibly biomedical-research products...
...screamer; he usually sits coolly by the sidelines, reserving his comments for the right moments. In practices he treats players respectfully--but he can get loud if someone isn't living up to his high standards. Slack off and Jackson, who is 6-ft. 8-in. tall, beam-shouldered and deep-voiced, can be intimidating...
...herd instinct is at work here, and eventually the herd goes wrong. When you invest this way, the bet you make is that you can run fastest when the jig is up. That's a tall order. Typically, the end of any trend is clear only in hindsight. Until then, every dip looks like a buying opportunity...
Today drinkers at trendy bars from Manhattan to Mayfair pay as much as $40 for a tall shot, or caballito, of Porfidio Barrique, and buyers snap up Herradura's $230-a-bottle Seleccion Suprema. Even mass-market leader Jose Cuervo now offers a $1,000 bottle of limited edition 1800 Coleccion. It's all part of the trend toward boutique liquors that began in Europe and the U.S. in the late 1980s, says Chris Morris, national marketing director for American distiller Brown-Forman's two tequila brands, Pepe Lopez and the newly introduced Don Eduardo. "When single-malt whiskeys burst...