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...Washington last week a stray bullet from a gun battle raging outside smashed through a kitchen window, killing a 47-year-old grandmother, Rosemary Stevens. Sometime before, a dispute among three teenage girls in Miami over a vandalized Cadillac erupted into gunfire and a 15-year-old girl was mortally wounded by a shot from a .9-mm automatic. In Houston last month, a Colombian man and woman were shot execution-style in their...
...with only three days to go before the vote, Bush had little momentum. Dole had picked up Alexander Haig's endorsement. (When a Bush aide later read him a Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu...
...student last year who used to call his spit 'luggies,' " he tells his tenth-graders. "He could lean out my classroom window and gather enough spit to reach down to the ground and then suck it up again...
...first light Mercius Pierre rises and leaves the stuffy interior of his mud hut. He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and the loups-garous, the werewolves that stalk the nights of the superstitious. Pierre's movement stirs up the rats nesting in the thatched roof, as well as his wife Annaise and three young daughters. Annaise lights a fire with a few scarce twigs, then boils coffee with the last drops of water from a gourd and sweetens it with a piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd...
...Abramowitz v. Boston University, a Suffolk County Superior Court judge ruled that a student had a right to display a political banner from his dormitory window where the school had generally allowed banners of any kind to be hung from such windows. The court ruled that if banners are permitted, school officials cannot decide to have certain ones taken down simply because they advocate a political view different from that of the administration. In other words, Boston University could not discriminate on the basis of the content of the expression...