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...frame, junior center-fielder Brian Ralph led off with a single to left. After Ralph was advanced to second on a sacrifice by sophomore second baseman Todd Harris, sophomore rightfielder Andrew Huling hit a one-out triple to drive in the tying run. Captain Peter Albers then delivered the fatal blow in the form of an RBI single over a drawn-in Black Bear outfield...
...down some wrong paths and to mistake its own reflection for the face of God. Much of the time, those errors are nothing more than episodes of the human comedy. Occasionally they become something worse. This is what happened at Rancho Santa Fe, where foolish notions hardened into fatal certainties. In the arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp, the cult members saw a signal that their lives would end soon. There are many things about which they were badly mistaken. But on that one intuition, they made sure they were tragically correct...
...denial of desire, the easy affability of a young Texan from Spur, who loved to perform in lavish productions like Oklahoma! and South Pacific, was transmogrified into the troubled charisma of a cult master in Rancho Santa Fe, California, one who last week led his 38 followers on a fatal comet chase...
...that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale to the races. Pepper writes that the soldiers were in Memphis to shoot King--and his deputy Andrew Young--if the hired civilian gunman who actually fired the fatal shot had missed. All of the witnesses Pepper claims can back up this story are dead, in hiding or unwilling to come forward--so there is no way for anyone else to question them...
Such delays can prove fatal. Tanya (not her real name), an 11-year-old from Miami who is HIV positive, had to watch her younger sister die last year while they waited for permission to take a protease inhibitor. Both girls had been infected in utero; their mother died a couple of years later. "The [pharmaceutical company] said they didn't have the right dosage for children," the girls' foster mother recalls. "They told us to hold out. But by the time she got accepted, it was too late [for Tanya's sister]." In February, Tanya started combination therapy with...