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...steady stream of predawn customers in a room directly across the courtyard. ("You know he's in," the night clerk said, "when the phone lines all light up at once.") Approached for an interview about his trade, the wanted man, a tattooed giant on a bed surrounded by a clutch of weary party girls, merely said, "I'm busy. I don't have time now." Last week the alleged dealer was arrested in another Billings motel in a raid that netted several ounces of what police identified as meth. Said a motel employee about her fugitive lodger: "The only problem...
...impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
...best known of them--Jeff Koons in America, he of the polychromed statue of Michael Jackson and Bubbles; and Damien Hirst in England, infamous for his dead cow pickled in a formaldehyde-filled vitrine--epitomize the Post-Warhol Effect: whole careers can now be spun from a clutch of industrial knock-offs and icons of calculated sensationalism...
...took a special group of players and a coachwho pushed all the right buttons during the year.In one clutch situation after another, Lindendropped back into the shotgun, Harvard spread thefield with four wide receivers and eitherChupaila, Skelton or Patterson would make theconversion catch. In one defining moment afteranother, the defense stopped a runner cold orbatted a pass down...
...spectacular defensive plays by Feaster and two clutch buckets from junior co-captain-elect Suzie Miller helped Harvard end the game on a 9-2 run and oust the Cardinal from the post-season. The run began when, after a missed shot by Feaster, Stanford sophomore point guard Milena Flores grabbed the rebound and fired a pass upcourt to Honorable Mention AP All-American Olympia Scott, who would have had an uncontested lay-up at the other end that would have put Stanford ahead by five...