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...police. Trail, whom Cunanan had known in California, was found on April 29 rolled in a rug in Madson's Minneapolis apartment, a bloody claw hammer nearby. Madson, a promising architect who had lectured at Harvard, turned up four days later on a lakeshore 50 miles away, several 40-cal. bullets in his head and back. On Trail's answering machine, the police found a message from Cunanan inviting Trail to Madson's apartment. In the apartment, not far from the hammer, police discovered a nylon gym bag containing the kind of distinctive .40-cal. bullets used to kill...
...swift as a Lisa Fernandez fastball, as dramatic as a Kerri Strug vault. "It's the greatest single legal action in the history of women's sports," said Donna de Varona, the Olympic swimmer and first president of the Women's Sports Foundation. "It's bad law," says Southern Cal athletic director Mike Garrett, voicing a concern that the Brown ruling will spur lawsuits against schools that are earnestly trying to upgrade women's sports...
...miles away, Georgio Gallara, 24, the owner of Tony's Pizza & Pasta, and an employee, Jeremy Giordano, 22, drove off in Giordano's Pontiac Grand Am with two pies. When they got to Scott Road, Gallara and Giordano were met with a volley of bullets fired from a .45-cal. automatic and a .22-cal. pistol. Their car rolled into a small marsh. The attackers then apparently took a pizza box and flung it like a Frisbee, scattering slices throughout the scene...
...Norman Mailer (see following review), Saul Bellow, the mysterious Thomas Pynchon and a seemingly perennial Philip Roth all have new works scheduled for publication. American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin; 423 pages; $26) is Roth's fourth offering in fewer than seven years, making the 64-year-old a sort of Cal Ripkin of American letters...
...Francisco: Pat Barnes, QB, Cal. They probably considered QB Jake "the Snake" Plummer of Arizona State, who reminds people of Joe Montana...