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Cross-country runners Kraus and Sullivan will be joined by teammate Bill Berkeley, formerly of Winthrop House and New Canaan, Conn., who has 2:40 ambitions for his second marathon. Berkeley finished the Silver Lake jaunt in 2:48, but his 50-to-70-mile training regimen has "been inconsistent because of school work...
...September night in 1973, police in rural Canaan, Conn. (pop. 1,100), were summoned to the home of Barbara Gibbons. A hard-drinking woman of 51 who had never married, she had been stabbed to death, and officers promptly arrested the slight, trembling youth who said he had found the body. He was Peter Reilly, Barbara's teenage...
...results of the new investigation were introduced at a hearing, the judge threw out the conviction. A new trial was planned, but last summer the original prosecutor died of a heart attack. His replacement was going through the files when he came upon a startling piece of evidence: a Canaan fireman and his wife had seen Reilly driving in downtown Canaan at 9:40 p.m. and they had told police about it. Though that substantially backed Reilly's story, the defense was never informed of the statement...
Carolyn M. Christensen '74, now a special student at Harvard taking undergraduate courses in the natural sciences, came to Cambridge not from the "mecca" but from New Canaan, a city in New York's Connecticut backyard. She had only limited exposure to the church before she arrived here: Her mother (whose grandmother was the daughter of a second wife of a polygamist) and father (a scientist who believes in super-intelligence and thinks Mormons are vain to see god as a personage) grew up in Utah. When they moved East 25 years ago, they rejected Utah and Mormonism as unwanted...
...Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After the Fall). So last year Miller's interest was aroused when he heard about Peter Reilly, 18, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the 1973 killing of his mother in Canaan, Conn.-not far from Miller's home. Reviewing the evidence and the confession (which Reilly made after many sleepless hours of interrogation and later recanted), Miller had doubts. For example, says the psychologically oriented playwright, Reilly, after confessing, "reached no cathexis ... no discharge of a new order of feeling toward...