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...break up with her. In September a 23-year-old Chicago woman was convicted of the drive-by shooting of a teenage boy at a fast-food restaurant. Reason: he was wearing the colors of a rival gang. Her two-month-old twin daughters were sitting in the backseat of her car when she pulled the trigger...
...being held without trial in Addis Ababa. The conditions are better than tolerable, and there have been no charges of torture. But few are being released. "We can't deal with them without a new judicial system," Meles explains. He believes that the establishment of courts must take a backseat to political and economic agendas, and offers no apology for the delay...
Federal mine inspector Jack (Black Jack) Massey says his payoffs began when he found a crisp $100 bill under his jacket in the backseat of his car after inspecting one of Nelson's mines. During the next several years, Massey says, Nelson gave him more than $8,000 in cash as well as knives, hams, turkeys and | season tickets to University of West Virginia football games. Massey's job was to inspect for electrical hazards, but instead of citing the mine for violations, he repaired problems and was paid by the mining company for the work. In February 1990 federal...
...sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where it hit, the driver dead in the backseat -- and the location of every last splinter of glass in the woods were perfectly explicable by the laws of physics...
...villain, Fu Manchu, "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." But in the postwar period the public grew weary of caricatures, and only Ian Fleming could profitably drive on the old thoroughfare, with men like Doctor No and Goldfinger in the backseat...