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...Many children would have gone back to their computer games. Walters went to Goodyear, and asked for free tire gauges. With 1,000 in hand, she and her Brownie group from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, handed out flyers and gauges at the parking lot of their local commuter rail station...
Three years later, the double murder that rattled the peaceful northern Wisconsin town of Hudson still seems inexplicable: a funeral home director and an employee surprised and killed in the middle of a workday by a gunman who disappeared without taking money or valuables. This week Hudson's shock deepened further when a judge ruled that the murders were committed by a local Roman Catholic priest who served the town and spoke at the funeral of one of the dead...
...Evidence also showed that Erickson had been the target of allegations of sexual misconduct before arriving in Hudson, but the charges were never proven and he was never disciplined by the church, nor were the people of Hudson aware of the young priest's record. Because the defendant in this case was deceased, the hearing this week took place without a jury, and the judge ruled that if Erickson were alive there would be probable cause to charge him with sexual assault and murder. Erickson's attorney and parents, who maintain that he is not guilty, refused to attend...
...cafeteria at New York City's Hudson Hotel, where an old standard like macaroni and cheese is made with white-truffle oil and sells for $19 a plate, is an appropriate place to chat. Neil Fiske did, after all, write the book on America's newfound obsession with affordable luxury--literally. He co-wrote Trading Up and coined that term to explain why you now pay $4 for a cup of Starbucks or $4,000 for a Viking range even though you are (your tax returns show) solidly middle class. "There's a pretty significant shift in the social paradigm...
...staple of down-home goodness and gingham into an upscale yet affordable beauty boutique--a perfect example of a new category of consumer goods that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year-old in a dark suit, is at the Hudson Hotel: he has just launched a new line of skin-care products developed by dermatologist to the stars Patricia Wexler. "This," says the soft-spoken Fiske, "represents another step in the transformation of Bath & Body Works from raspberry shower gel to a modern apothecary of beauty and well-being...