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...parking lot may have been the site of the paramount symbol of the young generation's clash with authority, a major motion picture, a cause for national mourning, and a Top 40 hit. On this November day it looked as small as my backyard at home and offered less...
Citizens in Morgan Hill, Calif., were outraged last June when a pit bullterrier savagely attacked and killed James Soto, 2 1/2, a toddler who had wandered into a neighbor's backyard. Willie, the muscular, 60-lb. dog responsible for the mauling, was subsequently destroyed. Last week Willie's owner, Michael Patrick Berry, 37, was formally charged with murder...
Late in the day, sitting in the backyard of his adobe house, Savory is by turns fierce, edgy, raw and soft. His hair is graying, his eyebrows growing shaggy, and recent personal sorrows are taking a toll on his face. "Those eight years I was in Parliament in Rhodesia, I had a house in the bush, and I'd fly home between sessions. The house had no doors or windows. Didn't believe in them. Animals came and went as they pleased. My children and I lived quite wildly there...
...fiercely competitive tennis player, Mr. Carlucci plays on his own court in the backyard of his McLean, Virginia home, which a Washington monthly recently assessed at $1 million. Although Marcia, his second wife, is regarded as a better tennis player, he is known publicly to criticize her game in their doubles matches...
...older brother's dreamlike murder of the man he first thought to be his father and in the two brother's building of a live funeral pyre for their mother, who abandoned them, and her live-in lover. The two watch the blaze in wonderment from a backyard ditch, as children see a Christmas tree light up and an insect burn in the glare of a magnifying glass...