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Dele's agent, Dwight Manley, wonders if the ballplayer's wealth had triggered fatal sibling jealousy: "Brian provided things for him. Maybe this was a simple case of financial motives." For now the answer lies with Dabord and in the waters of Tahiti...
...whose father began sexually abusing her at age 11, and who then repeatedly injured herself in hope of stopping the assaults. After several episodes of incest followed by long hospital stays, she effectively committed suicide by rubbing a dead insect into her self-inflicted wounds, eventually succumbing to a fatal infection...
...bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series about sudden infant death syndrome. Along the way he discovers a children's book containing a rhyme that can kill when the possessor reads it to anyone or even thinks it in his or her direction. Having memorized the fatal lines, Carl now holds that power. So, it turns out, does Helen Hoover Boyle, a brassy Realtor whose specialty is selling haunted houses to unsuspecting buyers--there's good money in the high turnover--and who long ago began putting the lethal verse to her own uses...
Last night the Harvard field hockey team held Connecticut to five penalty corners for the game—hardly a fatal defensive performance in usual circumstances...
...Numbers 17,934 Japanese will be more than 100 years old this year, an increase of about 2,500 from last year, according to a government survey 3 fatal heart attacks were attributed to Yugoslavia's cliffhanger overtime victory over Argentina in the World Basketball Championships 77 people were arrested and 32 injured during celebrations in Belgrade after Yugoslavia's victory $18,000 is how much it costs to have a proper wedding in Shanghai, or eight years' salary for the average urban worker, according to China Daily $6.4 billion is how much money police say eight suspects laundered...