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...ever a crime cried out for grave punishment, it's this one. King and two friends were driving a 1982 Ford pickup in the early-morning hours last June. They spotted Byrd, 49, an unemployed vacuum-cleaner salesman, walking home from a party on a lonely stretch of Highway 96 and offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Life For A Life | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the couple sitting in front of me missed the Gloria Gainer tribute because they took their young children home after Act I, due, as I overheard, to the show's "inappropriateness." And it is a good thing they did because Act II wasn't getting any cleaner. In "Tea for Three," for example, the third song in Act II and one of the best examples of the show's lewdness, Stella sings these lines while bending over between two members of the cast (pun intended): "I am in a boil and I am ready to steam/Just drop...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Show Me The Pudding | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...Thais they had something to worry about when they were growing at 8% a year. They're a lot more attentive now." Greenspan and Rubin hope they can turn that attention into the kind of reforms that will make these emerging markets closer to ideal. Among the top priorities: cleaner international banking systems, transparent lending practices and more open markets. As soon as they can ram those changes through, they expect growth to pick up again--possibly just in time to help a flagging U.S. economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...Mass Army Navy Store, at 698 Mass. Ave., carries the same merchandise as the old, but in a brighter, cleaner location. Even though the store lost more than half its square footage in the move, a more logical layout allows customers breathing room between the racks of survival gear...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mom and Pop Make a Go | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

Slate then asked the owner of a dry cleaning shop on Mass. Ave. to sell some of his ring binders and pencils. The dry cleaner agreed, business flourished and now Bob Slate is a Square institution. Bob Slate, for his part, cleaned shirts until...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mom and Pop Make a Go | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

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