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...about a month of big-league experience, but it has been a sensational month for him--and a sensational year for his team. The Angels finished two games from last in their division a year ago, and despite winning this year's American League wild-card spot, they figured to go quietly against the mighty Yankees. Instead, the Halos trounced New York and then the Minnesota Twins, turning Disneyland into the second most popular attraction in Orange County, behind Edison International Field...
...hope--the faintest, most tantalizing, vanishing glimmers of it--that led the victims on from day to day. Surely the worst is over now, they repeatedly told themselves, against the mounting evidence. They won't take me. They need me at the Tobbens factory. This new identification card will keep me safe. Day by day, hope deflected the full, unillusioned despair that, when it came later--too late--roused the ghetto to armed resistance...
...forensics side, the FBI is examining the ink written on a tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told TIME. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland...
...high school friend in attendance asks me if Benny Blanco is strange. “No more than necessary,” I tell him. “Because he gave me this,” he says, showing me a business card advertising Benny’s services as a therapeutic healer. I answer, “Shit’s pretty complicated right...
...it’s the very invisibility of seers in the academic world that justifies the project to begin with. While pursuing his MFA at Yale, Mingwei was surprised to meet two professors—one of math, the other of statistics—who were also excellent tarot card readers. “They would never come out and say it,” he says, “because there’s something against it, like a taboo.” Doubts notwithstanding, Mingwei sees the skill of the seer as essentially creative, “coming...