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...stories seemed, another chilling possibility was yet to be raised: that none of it had happened at all. In January, after an 18-month preliminary hearing that was the longest in California history, a judge ruled that the prosecution of the seven could go forward. But a week later District Attorney Ira Reiner dropped all charges against five of the defendants, calling the evidence against them "incredibly weak." The two remaining accused, Raymond Buckey, 28, and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 60, were to be tried last month. Now their day in court has been postponed and the case against...
...fanciful than Hall's previous ones. It is set in 1983, when in N.S.W. there did reign a Department of, and Master in, Lunacy. And even today one doesn't have to travel far to find larger-than-life Country Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These, of course, are the dark characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity at bay (most memorable of all, there's a big black bull that materializes from the fog). But as in the Robert Graves poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when...
...district is also looking at possibly starting the high school day at least an hour later, because research shows that teenagers just aren't ready to learn at 7:30 a.m. Grades K-3 are getting a curriculum review to ensure that kids don't fall behind at the beginning of their school career. Next August, the district will introduce a program that allows kids who have been suspended or expelled to continue working toward their diploma...
...pretty woman sitting alone at a cafe in Bangkok, it's easy to assume she's a hooker - even though it often turns out that she's a lawyer or an investment banker or a software executive. But in this sex-saturated city, where the red-light district is not a district as much as a web of go-go bars that covers the entire city, the rush to judgment is understandable. No modern capital is as open about its flesh trade as Bangkok is. Nor does my gender preclude me from generous offers. Touts invite me to watch...
...Just how to make up more than four years of missed schooling has not yet been decided. But Superintendent John Westerman of the Richwoods elementary school district, which Shawn attended before 2002 said the school board is committed to doing whatever it takes - including hiring a private teacher - to help Ben catch up academically with his classmates. Though his former classmates are now in the 9th grade, Westerman said that with a private tutors, summer sessions and hard work, Shawn could expect to graduate with his friends on time...