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Hanford, Calif., is a farm community, the kind of place where people know each other by name and trust each other by nature. "You can go downtown without a dime in your pocket, do your shopping and come back to pay later," says City Councilman J. Brent Madill. "It's not faceless like L.A." In any town, the brutal killing of a teenage girl leaves a deep mark, but in Hanford the wound remains, 24 years after the crime. And now the U.S. Supreme Court has rubbed the wound open again all these years later...
...children with the woman I was married to. But when I walked into the hospital, Eileen tells the doctors that somebody not me is the father. She put down the name of some guy in New Jersey. Can you beat that? I told her she wasn't getting a dime until Michael had my name, and I went to court to make it legal. I could have murdered her then. She killed my fatherhood from the beginning, the first born...
...their own capabilities." Brown called the work the "ideal first purchase" for a $55 million pool established for major acquisitions for the gallery. The painting was sold by Pauline Woolworth, of the variety-store family. She and her husband Norman bought Rubens in 1958 for a real five-and- dime price: less than...
...either event, there are other good reasons for accepting the stock. First and foremost, McKinney's ulterior motives notwithstanding, the offer was made in good faith by a loyal alumnus. Secondly, it would not have cost Harvard a dime. Lastly, by McKinney's admittedly wishful projection, the stock would have net Harvard half-a-million dollars annually by 1990. Whatever the exact figures, if Cannabis gets off the ground, it is bound to be a strong competitor in a $50 million market...
What a shame. It was part of the original American ideal--or so it will here be claimed, since original American ideals are a dime a dozen these days and worth half of that--that Americans were essentially good. City on a hill and all that. Moreover, our Founding Fathers reasoned--listen up, Ed Meese--that if one Man is good, and one Man can only be in one place at one time, then if you stuck seven or eight million specimens of Man on to that same one space at one time, things would be even jollier...