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Investigators believe that around 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1963, Blanton drove his turquoise-and-white 1957 Chevy to 16th Street with Chambliss, Cash and Cherry. While the others waited, Cherry placed a 12-stick package of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church. The bomb exploded eight hours later, killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The martyred girls horrified the nation and transfigured the civil rights movement...
...with the aftereffects of a strike by the National Association of Meteorologists. Not only have forecasts ceased, but so, in a sense, has the weather itself, leaving them, as the wife notes, "stuck in a bland width of grayness with day after day of neither heat nor cold." In Windows another couple, both painters, decide to board up their house, depriving themselves of indoor access to natural light, to protest the government's new window tax. Reportage offers a breezily journalistic account of how local residents react when a Roman arena is improbably excavated in their area of Manitoba...
...mostly a book about being struck by lightning three times, first by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 40, then by skin cancer six years later, and by prostate cancer four years after that. Don Imus listened more than he talked for a full hour, giving a window into the mystery of how larger-than-life figures like Jordan and now Rudy Giuliani confront mortality...
...there, then, hope for the poor? To answer this question, we need an understanding of who should count as poor. Some types of poverty are easy enough to identify. There is no way of escaping immediate diagnosis when faced with what King Lear called "loop'd and window'd raggedness...
Last week, City Manager Robert W. Healy approved more money for roof repairs, furniture, carpet and window replacement, as well as more than $400,000 for technology. Some of this added work will be done next year, but the window and technology upgrades will wait for the following year...