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...haunted Woolrich roles) has presentiments of doom for a child playing with fire, a newsboy heading into traffic, his own fiancee, her eventual husband. All of these quickly died. Now, 20 years into his premonitory curse, he has a forewarning of doom for his beloved?s rich daughter (Gail Russell). The world thinks Triton is mad, and he does too, but his conscience goads him to warn her that she will die under the stars - the night?s thousand eyes - at 11p.m. and that her death will be presaged by a gust of wind, a broken vase, a crushed flower...
Four days later, after Gail Knisley, 62, was killed by a gunshot while riding in a car near that same strip of highway, Cable called the police. They matched the fragment in his van to the bullet that killed her. Authorities in Ohio last week said 14 recent shootings in the area were linked, five of them through ballistic evidence. All were clustered in a sevenmile patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August...
...theory, yes. Pressure must be applied to the overall Medicare program to bring down its costs. "Everybody 64 and younger is in some kind of HMO or managed-care network," says Gail Wilensky, who ran Medicare and Medicaid in the first Bush Administration. There's no reason to exempt seniors. The bill will set up a test program to have Medicare compete with private insurers in six metropolitan areas beginning in 2010. Republicans say seniors can opt to stay with Medicare, but Democrats complain that private firms will have the unfair advantage of a $12 billion subsidy and will...
...None of us really want the risk of someone saying in 15 years' time, 'When we sat on Santa's knee ...'" Gail Thompson, organizer of a New Zealand town's Christmas grotto, on why children will not be allowed to sit on Santa...
...officials may now be regretting their efforts on Gao's behalf. In a Virginia federal court last week, she pleaded guilty to illegally exporting to China hardened microprocessors, which have military applications. Gao admitted to using a number of front companies and an assumed name ("Gail Heights") to buy 80 chips from a Massachusetts supplier, which she then sold to the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, one of the top designers of radar systems for China's military. Under her plea agreement, Gao agreed to forfeit $505,000 she earned in the sales and was convicted of tax evasion...