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Lincoln appears briefly in his theater seat in the balcony, but the subject of the play is the assassin, not the victim. Afterwards, the audience sees Booth curled up with a bottle of wine and an old blanket. His pain and confusion is almost pitiable, yet McNeely's performance was...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Perfectly Killing 'Assassins' | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

"When the year comes to an end and we clean out our clothes, we find that there's a lot we don't use, so we could give them to people who need them," Smith said. "We work on our academics and sometimes we get a little detached from the...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: BSA Chooses New President | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

The story traces the lives of Richard and Sarah MacEwan, their divorced daughter Anna and grandson Douglas, and Anna's lover Charles Norden. The book opens as Richard is riding in a train to retrieve the body of his brother James who had just been killed in a hunting accident...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, | Title: Journalist's First Novel Tells of Stark, Brooding 'Midwinter' | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

The deaths of these two rap kingpins were followed by an outpouring of grief and anguish throughout the hip-hop community. Yet, Biggie's death evokes more than sadness; his passing also brings about a detached numbness and cynical resignation. Word of another fatal shooting will not seem quite as...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Who Shot Ya? | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

The problems of communication, participation and preparation are ones that every democracy faces. In America, these problems are magnified because of the sheer size and diversity of the populace. Detached from their representatives and skeptical of the government's capacity to serve their needs, many citizens simply choose not to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coro Fellow Says Civic Engagement Must Start Locally | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

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