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...highway bridge. And a man's possessions, like his home, are protected by the Constitution from unlawful searches. That was the thrust of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb of Harvard. "If someone were walking down the street with a suitcase, everyone would take...
Time is short, though; one day is already gone. To fully absorb college life in the remaining time, you'll need some guidance. If you follow it diligently, you'll understand how Junior has been living since he or she stuffed a suitcase and a duffel bag two Septembers...
...last Thursday, John Tingle, an employee at Louisville's Standard- Gravure Co., was startled to see a former co-worker. Joseph Wesbecker, 47, was carrying a duffel bag, an AK-47 rifle and a 9-mm handgun. "I told them I'd be back," Wesbecker growled at Tingle. "Back off and get out of the way." Tingle and several other workers quickly locked themselves in a bathroom, and Wesbecker took an elevator to the third-floor offices, looking for bosses or supervisors. Finding none, he worked his way downstairs, gunning down victims...
...toting dark green duffel bags were filing off ships in Valdez, Alaska, last week and heading toward the phones, Mike's Pizza Palace or the bar at the Pipeline Club. Final paychecks were burning holes in thousands of pockets. The work force that spearheaded Exxon's $1 billion effort to erase the largest oil spill in U.S. history was calling it quits before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies...
...muster points in besieged garrison towns around Afghanistan, sentries in camouflage uniforms guard mounds of duffel bags, stripped-down weapons and communications gear. The streets teem with jeeps, armored personnel carriers, trucks, tanks, half-tracks, command cars, vans, ambulances. The vehicles are the beasts of burden for a caravan of retreat and defeat that will begin this week to wend its way through the rugged passes of the Hindu Kush, north toward home along the Salang Highway, which stretches from Kabul to the Soviet border. The road was a "gift" from the U.S.S.R. to the people of Afghanistan...