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According to Burdon, Hughson planned to burn down Fort George, in what is now the heart of Manhattan’s downtown financial district. Burton testified that, according to Hughson’s scheme, “when as the white People came to extinguish it, [the conspirators] would kill and destroy them.” Burton named names...
...glass room, families sit on piles of suitcases, waiting for yet-another transfer to yet-another safe zone. Houston city officials, mindful of the chaotic scenes from the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center, are offering evacuees a get-out-of-town pass on buses, with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some evacuees from New Orleans, like Diane Pierce, a former Tulane University Hospital housekeeper, it's almost too much. She sat on a downtown Houston sidewalk Tuesday, all her possessions in a shopping cart, after accepting three bus tickets back to Baton Rouge for herself...
DIED. CHRIS SCHENKEL, 82, gracious founding father of sports broadcasting best known by younger fans for calling Professional Bowlers Association games for 36 years; in Fort Wayne, Ind. Over a 60-year career, the velvet-voiced baritone covered seminal events in such sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...
Hunting season just opened in the Canadian province of Alberta, and the game is a species rare to those Rocky Mountain foothills: the A lister. The Calgary press is hot on the trail of BRAD PITT, who is in Fort Edmonton Park filming the title role in The Assassination of Jesse James (and not, as it may appear here, a Ralph Lauren ad). The Calgary Sun has devoted six writers--10% of its editorial staff--to coverage of the star, who dyed his golden locks to play the dark outlaw. The Sun's rival, the Calgary Herald...
...Women should remember that everyone has the choice of being content or miserable. If they choose to be happy, they won't make poor choices that cause a crisis. Women are capable of being decision makers, and we can determine how to improve our life choices. Cornelia A. Holt Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. Given the advances in reproductive technology, I was surprised that your story didn't mention having a baby as some women's response to middle age. I'm 49, and my husband and I have a 4-year-old son who fills every day of our "middle...