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...Alexandria, Virginia, was handed a typewritten sheet from Air Force chaplain Steven Rich saying that his son was in Bosnia, that he had been shot down, that no one saw him eject and that they had received no signal from him. "That was the hard part," recalled the elder O'Grady. "We never really knew if he was alive...
...Grady's squadron in Aviano, calling to say they had made radio contact with O'Grady. "That was the first we knew he was alive and well." (O'Grady's mother, living in Spokane, his hometown, received a similar call within minutes.) The moment he heard the news, the elder O'Grady ran shouting into the bedrooms of his other two children. "I woke up Paul and Stacey, and we all just started jumping around," he said...
...brain cells while someone eats breakfast cereal." He now sells houses in Haddam, a leafy New Jersey exurb that bears more than a passing resemblance to Princeton, where he and his wife were once happy. She has remarried and moved to Connecticut with the two surviving children. And the elder one, Paul, 15, has entered a rough patch of adolescence, so much so that he faces a court hearing on July 5 for stealing condoms from a local mall...
...aren't happy about the coming loss of benefits, but they believe it may be overdue. "I don't think the Federal Government can subsidize us forever," says 80-year-old C. Warner Litten, a retired health-care administrator who is probably Fargo's most respected town elder. "I hope the slash isn't too quick, but we can make up for it." Like many Americans, residents of Fargo increasingly doubt that a new courthouse or post office or Army Reserve center is necessary if it means more debt for their offspring. "Regardless of what happens, we're going...
...encouraged--forced, really--Robert to draw. Gradually Charles' own comics became choked with words, rantings in a minute hand. For 30 years now he has hardly left his mother's house. Max eats string, sits on a bed of nails, then goes begging. He felt that his elder brothers never encouraged him to create art. He finally did, saw that it was good, and had an epileptic seizure...