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Warden Jack Pursley posed the traditional question, and Brooks, 40, did indeed have some last words. He turned to his friend Vanessa Sapp, 27, and said he loved her, prayed aloud to Allah, turned again to Sapp and told her, "Be strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas...
...Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel). At 78, Geisel retains his unique ability to wrap a concept in clothing. This time he portrays hunches, tempting the indecisive protagonist away from his homework. The good doctor is an eye-and-ear specialist; his infectious rhymes are meant to be read aloud...
...game-show magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...
...Berundi tour guide completed the thought. The land on which the U.N. now stands was given by the Rockefellers, I would say to myself. The copper peace bell in the garden is made of the melted down pennies given by children all over the world, I'd mumble half-aloud. I would always know just where in the gift shop to find the colorful flags-of-all-nations combination paperweight and pencil holders...
Boyum forced Rumpler to the backhand wall, then put him away with crosscourt rolls The sophomore's quickness and fearless use of change-of-pace shots continually frustrated the more conservative Rumpler After some of Boyum's drop shots. Rumpler scolded himself aloud, openly upset at his in ability to return Boyum's offering...