Word: bedford
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Envisioning a life spent in the prison library at Bedford Hills, "in the company of women who do not care about Jane Austen," Rosie goes on the lam to find the murderer. Was it Richie's old partner Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie...
...Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk to white supremacy. The Ole Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...coach Edward McCarthy, of the Southeast New Bedford Hot Wheels, shared Maynard's opinion of the heat. Nevertheless, citing the numerous athletes he coaches who brought home medals, he said he was enjoying the competition...
These three boys drove up to a school, intent on committing a murder in front of dozens of people, and they did just that. The three were apprehended the same day and were arraigned Tuesday in District 3 Juvenile Court in New Bedford. They are awaiting a trail that, with roughly twenty-five eyewitnesses, they have little chance of winning. It is what should be an open and shut case, both legally and morally. These kids committed a horrible crime without provocation and should never see the light of day again. The question is this: if the judicial system...
DIED. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, film director, writer and producer; in Bedford, New York. Mankiewicz loved words; he filmed words; he realized that talking pictures were just that. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he started off as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before entering the world of film. He won an Oscar for best director and best screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and won both those awards again for All About Eve (1950). He also directed one of the biggest film flops of all time: Cleopatra (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor). But his cinematic successes were legion...