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...forensic expert testified without emotion that the activist priest died from a combination of severe beating, shock, strangulation by the nylon cord with which he had been trussed and from his inability to expel the blood and vomit that flooded through his respiratory system after the attack. Dispassionately, Byrdy held up one of the two rolls of stained gauze that Popieluszko's attackers had forced into their victim's mouth...
...door of the car, jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into the gloom of the subway tunnel. His victims, all ages 18 or 19, were rushed to hospitals; three appeared to be recovering, but Darryl Cabey was paralyzed from the waist down by a bullet that severed his spinal cord. All four turned out to have arrest records, and three were found to have been carrying sharpened screwdrivers...
...heavyset men now climbing into the ring are veterans. Bill Howard, in his 40s, from Milwaukee, is portly, tough and tanned, in maroon robes tied with a golden cord. He shows his anger with a slow, bull-like shaking of the head as he encounters "Cowboy" Scott Casey, in his late 30s, a hulking former hairdresser from Amarillo, wearing a white hat and boots stamped with red patches in the shape of the state of Texas...
...cord that unites mother and son may be Western society's most powerful bond, yet attitudes toward the relationship are either murky or coated over with cliche. "We think we're comfortable with it, but culturally what we get are caricatures," argues Carole Klein, a longtime observer of the dynamics of family relationships. Klein, 48, who shuttles between running group counseling sessions for women in New York City and writing about psychology and sociology, is the author of The Single Parent Experience (1973), The Myth of the Happy Child (1975) and, this year's Mothers and Sons...
...also be said that after 16 almost uninterrupted years in office, Trudeau did not leave this bickering, fragmented country as he found it. A previous Prime Minister, the engaging Lester B. Pearson, gave us a flag. Trudeau, going one better, brought home a constitution, severing our last official colonial cord. Now that we've got some of the furniture of nationhood, all we need is a proper house...