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Cash and a Place to Crash...
Copple secured his teammates’ cell phone numbers before he left Cambridge, leaving with guarantees of several futons to crash on should he visit a game weekend this fall. He has spoken with Murphy, captain Ryan Fitzpatrick, as well as members of the tightly-knit offensive line he had hoped to join, and plans to stay in touch with the team throughout the year...
DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...
...tenure. Ten people who worked for him, including two top aides, have been convicted of corruption. DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and motorcycle builder known as "Indian Larry"; of injuries suffered while performing a stunt; in Charlotte, North Carolina. A favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash-and-burn" lifestyle, he was most famous for a chopper he built and dubbed "Grease Monkey." died. ALASTAIR MORTON, 66, South African-born executive who oversaw construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial...
...Russians, the Kremlin's initial response to last Tuesday's nearly simultaneous plane crashes seemed all too familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin's state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya. The catastrophe, which killed 90 people, occurred just a few days before a disputed presidential election in that breakaway republic; the two flights had departed from the same Moscow airport; the planes crashed within a minute of each other; eyewitness reports suggested that an explosion had downed one of the planes; and a hijack distress call preceded the crash of the other plane...