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...With a mixture of shock and gratitude, Roby residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized such a lottery syndicate, and many of its participants had never...
...North Koreans were tracked down and killed in separate clashes the next day. One intruder, however, was captured alive. Under interrogation, Lee Kwang Soo at first refused to talk, saying his family in the North would suffer for it. Then, after downing a few drinks of soju, the local gin, he became voluble but also contradictory. According to his latest account, Lee was a member of the crew of the sub, which left North Korean waters on Sept. 14 with seven infiltrators and 19 crew. Their mission, he says, was to spy on an airport, radar installations and civilian preparedness...
...abortion and affirmative action. So is he waiting for 2000, or heading off into the sunset once and for all? "I haven't passed over yet," Powell offered, sphinx-like. "I'm not ready to go down to Hilton Head and sit in a rocking chair and drink gin fizzes." Anita Hamilton
Grisham had a personal reason for concocting this novel legal theory. In March 1995, William Savage, an acquaintance of Grisham's, was gunned down at the cotton gin where he worked, out-side Hernando, Mississippi; the next day, convenience-store clerk Patsy Byers was shot and paralyzed in nearby Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Benjamin Darras, 18, and Sarah Edmondson, 19, have been accused of both crimes. Edmondson told authorities that before the shootings, she and Darras took LSD and watched Natural Born Killers, which they had seen countless times...
...impacted resentments on the part of the miners and supercilious contempt on the part of the clan that owns the mine workings, ruled by a righteous and merciless cleric, Bishop Hannay. Into this nexus of bitterness and coal dust comes Jonathan Blair, a penniless, malarial and more than slightly gin-sodden African explorer. Blair, who was born in Wigan, would rather be anywhere else, but the wealthy bishop, whose hobby is African exploration--this is the era of Burton, Speke and the Mountains of the Moon--has promised Blair a place on his next expedition if he finds the missing...