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...woman calls HUPD to report that her car is locked in the Broadway garage. Police respond, unlock the gate and escort the woman to her car. She is a member of the Newton Choral Society participating in a recital on campus. She had met a friend afterwards, who had kept her past the garage's 11:45 p.m. closing time, she says...
Noriega, who remained out of sight for most of the week, did not emerge unscathed from the sorry election exercise. Panamanian voters dealt him a stinging rebuke in rejecting, by more than 2 to 1, the presidential candidacy of Carlos Duque, the general's longtime friend and business manager. So clear was the electorate's embrace of the opposition, a coalition known as the Democratic Alliance of Civil Opposition and led by lawyer Guillermo Endara, that authorities felt obliged to declare the election null and void. That decision was widely interpreted as an admission by Noriega that given such...
...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
...spill tarnished his leadership credentials. Bush failed to grasp the symbolic importance of dealing personally with a major environmental disaster. When an Exxon tanker dumped 11 million gal. of oil into Prince William Sound, Bush remained in Washington instead of touring the scene of the accident. Even his old friend John Chafee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says, "That was unfortunate, a missed opportunity." Despite the lack of personal involvement, however, Bush has sent ships and personnel from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard to help in the cleanup operation...
...push 9" for refunds. Even a local department store had acquired a robot operator, which like an overeager clerk insisted on taking Hiwot on a guided tour of the entire store ("For furniture, home decorating or major appliances, push 3"). Desperate for human contact, she finally dialed a friend, only to be invited to leave a message at the sound of the tone. "It was like the Twilight Zone," says Hiwot. "I felt there was nobody out there but machines...