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...friend Charles Darke, a former editor and, as a junior minister, author of a hard-nosed government manual, The Authorized Child-Care Handbook ("Make it clear to him that the clock cannot be argued with"). His sad fate is that his political ambitions conflict with a longing to chuck it all and live in rural, childlike innocence. Longing wins, and Darke moves to a Suffolk woods where he dons short pants, carries a slingshot and spends his days in a tree house atop a 160-foot beech. He is quite mad. His physicist wife explains the split between his secret...
...Kennedy School program, which will try to match Kennedy School participants with local non-profit organizations, may prove to be a model in the future for other such programs at the professional schools, said Chuck J. Supple, the clearinghouse organizer...
When Nunn told reporters the "window and the door are closed" for him, he noted there was still an opening for another entry. Former Virginia Governor Chuck Robb was afraid Nunn would name him as a replacement. "If you do," Robb jokingly warned Nunn on the phone, "our long friendship is over." Nunn did, and also mentioned New York Governor Mario Cuomo and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley...
...minicomputer and then spent more than two years pumping more than a million bits of information into it. A specially designed software program helps detectives wade through crushing amounts of data on suspects, police tip sheets and details of similar homicides elsewhere in the country. Says Crime Analysis Supervisor Chuck Winters: "The computer is the heart of the investigation. But it's old- fashioned police work that will solve this case...
...establishing motives and motifs, Dante goes productively crazy. Is Tuck to be stuck in a rabbit? Then there will be hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through...