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...Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera a few feet from JonBenet...
Four months later, on Christmas Eve, the detectives repeated their stakeout, this time hiding a bug in a fake tombstone fashioned by a movie special-effects company. But the ruse failed when reporters and cameramen overran the site, and a youngster discovered the bogus marker, rocking it back and forth and loudly announcing, "This is made of wood...
Yvena Rhinvil, the mother of Marc, 10, and Germanie, 8, was among the thousands of Haitians desperate to leave her beleaguered country. On New Year's Eve they boarded a boat for the U.S. with more than 400 other migrants. When the craft ran aground off the coast of Florida, Yvena was hospitalized for exhaustion; her children were shipped back to Haiti. The episode drew cries of protest from advocates for Haitian refugees, who pointed out the cruel contrast in the way those who flee Haiti and Cuba are treated. After widespread criticism, the Immigration and Naturalization Service brought...
...hole in her heart? Much of her appeal lies in our inability to explain away her bottomless neediness. "You can write down everything Lana Turner ever thought and felt and meant, and then put the pencil down," claimed Garland amour Joe Mankiewicz (the director and screenwriter of All About Eve). "That's it, a closed book. But I don't think anybody's going to close the book on Judy Garland." Not even Gerald Clarke--but he comes close...
...remain hospitable to life for at least an additional 100 billion years. That's 20 times as long as the earth has existed, and 5 million times as long as Homo sapiens has lasted so far. If we're not around to shoot off fireworks on New Year's Eve of the year 100,000,000,000, it won't be the universe's fault...