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...even with all their prayers, the Nixons have lost two children in a way that has set the town on edge and led to disastrous encounters with the law. In 1991 their eight-year-old son Clayton died as the result of an ear infection treated only by prayer. The Nixons pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, and they were put on probation. Last week the Nixons were found guilty of the same charges in the death of their 16-year-old daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after...
Steam was starting to rise from the two bodies when Lori Clayton arrived at the edge of the marsh just after 11:30 Saturday night. "Lori, Lori, I can't find a pulse," one of the cops at the accident site yelled out when he saw her. Clayton, an emergency-medical-team worker, quickly made her way through the darkness and into the mud. "These guys were still hot," she recalls. She did a pulse check. Nothing. And then she looked at her hands: they were covered in blood. A few yards away was shattered glass...
Talk of Koskovich's family brings out a variety of emotions from Clayton, the EMT. "That grandmother is going to have a stroke dealing with this," she says. "She's got so many kids she's raising in that house. There are four or five different families in there. Someone should track down the mother and make her take some responsibility." Mention of Tom's uncle Lenny Koskovich provokes a different response. "He's got a rap sheet that's as long as Scott Road. He is one bad man," says Clayton. The uncle is now serving his latest sentence...
Suddenly, the floodgates opened. Sophomore Clayton Rodgers and freshman Trevor Allman followed Millar's lead, and all of a sudden the Crimson had built a 3-1 lead...
...especially liked the way Walter Isaacson prodded Gates to think "philosophically," which he eventually did. Gates really scares me. Society should not allow any one person to amass as much economic power as Gates has. We need some modern-day versions of the old Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws to regulate computer commerce. We need, too, to stop worshipping at the altar of high technology. It has only instrumental value and needs to be judged by how efficiently it promotes genuine aesthetic and moral values. WALTER JEFFKO Lunenberg, Massachusetts...