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Herne's hard work did not go unrewarded. At the first opportunity he got off the slime line and joined the "Dock Crew," where, instead, of cutting and gutting fish, he shoveled ice on the incoming loads of salmon. His first day, "They worked [him] as hard as they could," but Herne says he kept going. He would do "anything to leave the slime line...
...Salzman brings East and West together in The Soloist (Random House; 184 pages; $19), a novel that counterpoints Occidental self-consciousness against Oriental ego transcendence. The dissonance is played out at a murder trial where Reinhart is a juror. There is no doubt that the young man in the dock has killed his Zen instructor. He says he beat him to death after hearing a parable that equated freedom with the killing of authority figures. The question is whether or not the accused is sane...
...specifics until after they havedone so. But the two men are likely to say thatwhile they made a mistake by taking the coolersout of an unlocked area used for "trash," they didnot intend to steal anything. Auterio may testifythat he removed a cooler from a trash dumpster onthe loading dock next to Harkness Commons...
Elizabeth Davidson, food services director atthe Law School, testified that only members of herstaff and officials of the Coop were allowed toenter the area. She said the room where shebelieves the coolers were stored--a recycling areanear the loading dock off of Harkness Commons--wasnot for trash...
...wrong," said Colette Smalley, mother of an eight-month-old, "but maybe we want to believe that -- it's too horrific to think otherwise." The vans' two occupants, 11-year- old boys with tidy haircuts, had just left the ornate, oak-paneled Court 1, where the floor of the dock had been raised a foot to allow them to see over the brass rail. The boys are charged with abducting and brutally murdering two-year-old James Bulger last February in Liverpool, and with the attempted abduction of another toddler the same day. The ghastliness of the case...