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...been beaten to death with 25 to 30 furious blows from a claw hammer. Four days later, police found Madson's body dumped near a lake about 50 miles north of Minneapolis. He had been shot several times in the head and back with Golden Saber .40-cal. bullets...
...then dragged over to the pavilion where Kaiser and Carter were being held facedown on the concrete with a sawed-off shotgun. "Do it!" one of the assailants commanded. And Carter was shot in the back of the head with a .22-cal. handgun at point-blank range. The attacker with the sawed-off shotgun took aim at Nicole's face. The trigger jammed, so the guy with the .22 fired two shots, one into Kaiser's head and another in Nicole's face...
...November, for example, I watched attentively as the votes of Californians were tallied live on the screen and the fates of the medical marijuana and affirmative action initiatives became known. In March, I rooted like hell (and with Ivy League pride) as Princeton got edged out by Cal in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. And in April, I paced and cursed as Fargo, the only decent film in a long time to have a shot at dominating Oscar night, was snubbed in nearly every category...
...harmonic convergence of some of the greatest athletes in the history of their sports. We are watching Tiger Woods on the front side of immortality and Wayne Gretzky in the last few minutes of his game. This season Ken Griffey Jr. may hit 60 or more home runs, and Cal Ripken Jr. will play in his 2,478th straight game. Last summer Michael Johnson reminded us of Jesse Owens, Amy van Dyken of Eleanor Holm and Kerri Strug of Sergeant York. Loathe him or merely dislike him, we shake our heads in wonder over the crossover talents of Deion Sanders...
...game needs. Friday night's face-off in Atlanta between the Braves and Orioles is just what supporters had in mind: baseball's best teams squaring off in a June World Series preview, and sellout crowds of 50,000 crammed into Turner field, all clamoring for a look at Cal Ripken and the man who ended the Braves' 1996 season, Jimmy Key. It was certainly a hit Thursday in Texas, where 46,507 showed up at The Ballpark to see history made. After notching the new era's first win, Giants pitcher Mark Gardner recalled a bit of AL culture...