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...added that the river's two- or three- inch thickness near the bank may have fooled Chipperfield into believing the entire river for solid enough to walk across. Chipperfield into believing the entire river was solid enough to walk across. Chipperfield tried to cross the river near the Longfellow Bridge, police believe...
...elevator stopped about three feet below the basement level with its doors locked, according to Slated M. O'Brien '88. She said that a number of people suceeded in manually prying the doors open about half an inch...
Last October a white officer shot and killed Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, an emotionally disturbed black woman who allegedly lunged at a second officer with a ten-inch knife while police were evicting her from her apartment. Ward ordered new procedures for handling such cases, but found that the officer who fired acted properly. A grand jury disagreed and indicted him two weeks ago. Ward suspended the officer pending trial and then reinstated him in a desk job. The commissioner's backing and filling has some black leaders complaining that he is an "Uncle Tom." His officers, for their part, last...
None of the signs of improvement is immediately apparent in the newcomer's square foot of personal space: an area paved with debris and bounded on one side by doors that creep open each time the train gathers speed. One inch, two inches . . . what next? A young woman in a dressed-for-success suit, leg warmers and running shoes tries to offer some consolation: "But you have a partition to lean against." The connection between leaning against a partition and comfort is, however, unclear to the newcomer...
...inch jawbone fragment that was unearthed dates back five million years--a million years earlier than any other previously discovered hominid, or member of the human family...