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...earlier, hadn't dropped to a howling but less than apocalyptic 144 m.p.h. when landfall occurred. Or if the tens of thousands of people living along the sugar-white beaches of Florida's panhandle hadn't torn themselves away from TV coverage of the Simpson verdict in time to flee the hurricane headed their...
Potentially incriminating evidence taken from the Bronco would never make it into court, including $8,750 in cash and six checks in a sealed envelope, items that might have been used to argue that Simpson was planning to flee the country (he had his passport with him). Lange and Vannatter, however, entered those items not as evidence but as the property of Cowlings--who was not charged with a crime. Reversing the designation would make the items procedurally suspect--and open to attack--as exhibits in court. "The detectives' decision to book the cash as Cowlings' personal property...
...secret dream of most of us is not to seek a sense of community but to flee from it. Our stress comes from being mired in a forced and artificial "civility" when what we really want is to gather those few people we truly care about and then find a mountaintop where we can live like the primitives--fewer in number, less diverse, more honest and less civil. DIANE E. FOLTZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
More than three years of siege and massacre have scarred this city. More than 10,500 Sarajevans have been killed, and the living who did not flee long ago have survived with only intermittent supplies of power, water and fresh food . They have been shelled and shot at almost daily. Virtually all of them have lost someone they knew or loved. Only once in the past 41 months have they enjoyed a period of relative peace, and it took a massacre in the same area to bring it about. When a Serb shell killed 68 people and wounded an additional...
...cabdriver Robert Chobert, told police on the night of the shooting that a man much larger than Abu-Jamal had stood over Faulkner and fired shots, then "ran away." Abu-Jamal's lawyers say other witnesses who did not testify also reported seeing a heavyset man shoot Faulkner and flee. As for Bell's testimony, defense lawyers question why the officer waited more than two months to report the alleged confession...