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...stand his incessant crying. A year earlier, Michele Remington, a factory worker in Bennington, Vt., fatally shot her infant son with a .22-cal. handgun before unsuccessfully trying to kill herself. Kathleen Householder, of Rippon, W. Va., hit her two-week-old daughter in the head with a fist-size rock because she was "fussing"; Householder dumped the tiny body in a nearby river...
...Jesse Jackson would approve of Nunn's selection. Campaign Manager Gerald Austin last week gave Nunn a qualified thumbs-up, while Campaign Chairman Willie Brown gave him a qualified thumbs-down. Trying to recover from a landslide (67% to 27%) loss to Dukakis in Pennsylvania, Jackson shook a verbal fist at Austin and chastised Brown for saying anything at all that might imply Dukakis is the inevitable nominee. Yet if Jackson became convinced it was the best way for the Democrats to win, he would probably get behind Nunn. At least for the moment, Jackson wants to be seen...
Yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team proved that hitting slumps can affect others parts of the game as fast as a Roger Clemens' high-riser goes from fist to mitt. The host Crimson (5-6 overall, 1-3 Ivy) dropped two games, 7-2, 7-1, to the visitors from Boston College (12-3). Harvard has now lost five of its last six games...
...truth that most Panamanians want the general out, and they want him out now. Yet the country has not been gripped by the same volatile passions that ignited mass protests in Haiti, South Korea and the Philippines in recent years. Last summer's protests by hundreds of thousands of fist-shaking Panamanians have given way to muted anger. "We're not a violent people," said a middle-class woman in the capital. "We want to do it peacefully, like Gandhi...
...Olympics, for every jubilant Pirmin Zurbriggen skiing to the limit, there is a devastated Dan Jansen suffering to the extreme. One suggests a bright ribbon, the other a black armband. But both are important players. They need each other to describe the Winter Games' opening week, with its fist in the air, its head in its hands, a grin on its face, a tear in its eye, and still eight days...