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Boston, do you actually think that the ghost of Bill Buckner has left Fenway Park? Do you actually think that the Boston Red Sox, 1918 World Champions, could actually ignore 70 years of its history...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...computers handling scientific research and unclassified military work. While Speer used fairly standard techniques for cracking passwords, he showed uncommon persistence. He attacked some 450 different computers and gained access to more than 30. Victims ranged from the Navy Coastal Systems Command in Panama City, Fla., to the Buckner Army Base in Okinawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Bold Raid on Computer Security | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...manager, proclaiming "the Giants is dead." New York papers involved in a grammatical argument over whether Dressen should have said "is dead" or "are dead"--but not doubting the veracity of his statement. Sweet disproof; a three-game playoff; Bobby Thomson's important moment (the eternal antidote to Bill Buckner's legs...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...deputies dispatched to the Buckner's dairy farm five miles away discovered an even more gruesome scene: Kirk's mother and his three younger brothers had all been killed by gunshots to the head. The body of Kirk's father lay by the side of a gravel road, midway between the two farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auguries Of Innocence | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...superficial. Although Schnick claimed he had attacked the boy only with a steak knife, an autopsy revealed that Kirk may have died from a gunshot. Then, at the high school where Kirk had just begun his freshman year, Fraker and Martin learned of a shattering piece of evidence: Kirk Buckner was lefthanded. The murder weapon had been found in his right hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auguries Of Innocence | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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