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DIED. EUGENE ROSTOW, 89, former dean of Yale Law School, who served under four Presidents, including Ronald Reagan; in Alexandria, Va. As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, he was part of a group of influential Democrats deeply affected by World War II who strongly defended U.S. involvement in Vietnam...
...Murphy remembers Carl Morris and basketball. The first time he saw his star receiver, Morris was playing for Episcopal High in Alexandria, Va. Murphy watched from the stands as Morris dunked from all angles and didn’t quite see the polished football player right then—couldn’t have, since Morris didn’t pick up football until 11th grade—but saw an athlete. Murphy, a master recruiter who has stolen players from the clutches of Nebraska and other big-time programs since taking over in 1994, has an eye for these...
...year-old brother Robin was found hanged in the backyard. Harriet's family--social pillars who have lost their wealth but not their hauteur--have not healed well. Her father has abandoned the family; her mother has checked out emotionally, leaving Harriet's rearing to the maid and the Alexandria, Miss., library, whose blackhearted adventure tales--Stevenson's pirates, Kipling's cobras--she reads greedily. She also loves Bible stories, for their morbid, operatic horror; in her yard, she stages Passion plays, in which she stars as Jesus, serving Ritz crackers and grape Fanta as the Last Supper and acting...
...SENTENCED. JOHN WALKER LINDH, 21, "American Taliban" taken prisoner by U.S. troops in Afghanistan last November; to 20 years in federal prison; in Alexandria, Virginia. Before the sentencing, a tearful Walker Lindh said that he had "made a mistake by joining the Taliban," and that that he "never understood jihad to mean anti-Americanism or terrorism...
...many ways ArchNet is like the ancient library in Alexandria,” he said...