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According to Bonneville County sheriff Byron Stommel, a 14-year-old girl who had been sleeping with her sisters on the family's backyard trampoline was abducted at gunpoint during the night by Keith Glenn Hescock, 42. After allegedly assaulting her at his home and chaining her to a bed, Hescock went to his day job as a traveling tool salesman. The girl found a nearby fire extinguisher, beat at the chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken From Home | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...another. They are dealing with one another constantly, making treaties and trading currencies and whatever else it is they do. The World Cup is mildly entertaining because you get to see them sublimate their little issues by kicking a ball at one another, sort of like watching your children backyard-wrestle. Senegal beats France, and the Senegalese throw a huge party venting their anger over two centuries of French colonialism. Imagine how much fun it is for anyone to act superior to the French, and multiply that by Senegal. And last Friday England and Argentina got to work out whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rest-of-the-World Cup | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...another. They are dealing with one another constantly, making treaties and trading currencies and whatever else it is they do. The World Cup is mildly entertaining because you get to see them sublimate their little issues by kicking a ball at one another, sort of like watching your children backyard-wrestle. Senegal beats France, and the Senegalese throw a huge party venting their anger over two centuries of French colonialism. Imagine how much fun it is for anyone to act superior to the French, and multiply that by Senegal. And last Friday England and Argentina got to work out whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rest-of-the-World Cup | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Cserny further established her prowess when Harvard stepped onto the national stage to face the Tar Heels in their own backyard. There, Cserny displayed dominance and poise beyond her rookie status, leading the Crimson with 16 points and shooting 8-for-9 from the charity stripe. It was only when she encountered foul trouble, with two violations after the first seven minutes, that UNC began to take charge of the game...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FEMALE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Reka Cserny | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...contention has been from the beginning that the project is much too large from the area and that it changes the area drastically by putting the Yard into our backyard,” says Betty Collins, one of the neighborhood’s three representatives on the committee...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Message to Tunnel: You've Got Mail | 5/8/2002 | See Source »

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