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...Afterward he cabled the following dispatch: We crossed the Mekong and the Salween en route to the Japanese lines with lights out, our formation tight, the interlocking ships black against the rising moon behind them. Tengyueh lay absolutely still within the rectangular walls of its valley, with not a glimmer of light anywhere. But the brilliance of the moon traced the outlines of the walls and the main streets in clear sharp shadows...
...that Ray made 11 months after King's assassination in April 1968, then recanted three days later. Even statements by the King family asserting their belief that Ray deserves a full trial have led nowhere. Last Friday, however, a criminal-court judge in Memphis, Tenn., provided Ray with a glimmer of hope...
...glimmer began 12:43 into the second half, when junior Honor MacNaughton scored on a fast break from the right side. Senior Liz Schoyer controlled the ensuing draw, which led to a goal by senior Chris Shortsleeve 25 seconds later...
...with the publication of Heir to the Empire, an original Star Wars novel continuing the adventures of Luke Skywalker and company; it spent a total of 29 weeks on various New York Times best-seller lists. Like a trip wire on the zeitgeist, the novel provided the first glimmer of the public's fresh hunger for a franchise that had largely lain dormant since the mid-'80s. Indeed, Lucasfilm had pretty much stopped licensing Star Wars merchandise, although that quickly turned around: since 1991, hundreds of new Star Wars products have entered the market, from the usual action figures...
Always searching for a glimmer of hope in the darkness, I was delighted to read of the new book Demonic Males [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 14] about research on the bonobo apes. Their female-dominated culture appears to be conservative in the truest and best sense. May they survive and prosper! ELIZABETH A. TEDFORD Cresskill, New Jersey...