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...Sacramento several employees at a Tower Books store 20 blocks from the bus station took one look at a newsmagazine cover last Monday and yelled, "Hey, this is Einstein!" That was their name for a wild-haired, ripe-smelling man who, for a few years until 1994, had shown up regularly in the spring and browsed through science books without buying. But a hotel clerk who told the press that Kaczynski had boarded at his establishment at the same times was less sure of himself when talking to investigators. A federal agent in California was heard to sigh, "I sure...
Just after 3 p.m., the plane suddenly disappeared from the radar screens in the Dubrovnik control tower. It was more than four hours before the truth emerged: the aircraft had slammed into a rocky hilltop nearly two miles from the airport. With the exception of a fatally injured flight attendant who died on the helicopter ride to a nearby hospital, every passenger was dead by the time Croatian rescue teams reached the site of the crash...
Meanwhile, the ceaselessly humming brain center for McVeigh's defense is elsewhere still, in Enid, Oklahoma, 68 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. On the 11th floor of the Broadway Tower, the tallest building in Enid's unhurried downtown, are the offices of Stephen Jones, McVeigh's court-appointed attorney...
...police raid of the Gilbert Tower room occupied by Blankenship and his roommate, Stephen V. David '96, allegedly revealed quantities of ecstasy, LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana. Not too shabby a selection: substances in Classes B, C and D. What happened to A? Not strong enough, perhaps, for the Currier crowd...
...oversee plans for most of a $3 billion expansion of Universal City in California. Why choose Koolhaas? "I think it's because of his grandfather," says Koolhaas of Edgar Bronfman Jr., grandson of the man who asked Mies van der Rohe to build New York City's first modernist tower, the Seagram Building...