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...Kimeses may be the biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They...
Desperately seeking new features to distinguish their wares, pager and cell-phone makers are replacing beeps and rings with popular melodies. Nokia's 6100-series cell phones perform The Lone Ranger's theme song (a.k.a. the William Tell overture), the ever popular Charleston Rag and Beethoven's Fur Elise, while Philips' Myna pager croons Over the Rainbow and The X-Files song. Earplugs, anyone...
Soon after that touchingly, enlightened gesture, a medium-sized horde of Mameluke warriors stages a surprise attack on the French camp, and Currier orchestrates a battle scene that measures favorably against the fur-flying in Braveheart. As in that film, the fighting here is vicious, bloody, and decidedly unromantic. The Mamelukes eventually retreat, their scimitars proving rather ill-matched to rifles and artillery, but the French men are sufficiently rattled to move quickly on to another campsite. Jean-Michel, however, has not finished his drawings, and he and Augustin lag a bit behind. Inevitably, the two are separated from their...
...Does she have hair? Or is it like fur...
...allowed on the island, you'll have to park your car at Mackinaw City. Those who do not want to cross the bridge can take one of the ferries from St. Ignace, just across the straits. Before you go, be sure to visit Colonial Michilimackinac, a reconstructed French fur-trading village and military outpost...