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WASHINGTON--A disabled Soviet nuclear submarine sank east of Bermuda before dawn yesteday, the Pentagon announced. Sources said all the crew were "presumed" to have escaped...
...mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise enough to love Turner and mad enough to let this parasitic devotion rule his life...
...long before dawn on Aug. 26, Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, and Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, strolled into New York City's Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Something happened between them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder...
...professors were asked not to submit a list of "great books," the kind students might read in a class on "The History of Thought Since the Dawn of Time." Too many, though, took this as a cue to list the works that set them off on their academic specialties. Given the eminence of the contributors, that's not necessarily boring stuff. But how many people are really going to go out and pick up a copy of the book that Sidney Verba writes "taught me how to think like a social scientist...
...scientists shoveled away soil covering some of the mummified wood, then used brushes to sweep away the remaining dirt so the roots of the ancient stumps would not be damaged. All told, they excavated a dozen stumps to a depth of three feet, identifying some of the trees as dawn redwoods. This species was once widespread throughout high latitudes in North America, Europe and Asia, but is now nearly extinct, surviving in only a few locations in China...