Word: jersey
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...Timmendequas could receive either the death penalty or 30 years to life in prison. The case received national attention after it was discovered that Timmendequas, who brutally beat and raped the young girl before killing her, had a record of sex crimes against children. The resulting outcry inspired New Jersey's 'Megan's Law' requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. Versions the law have been adopted in New Jersey and other states, and President Clinton last year signed a federal version. Court challenges have kept the New Jersey law from being enforced most of the time...
...season for romance. They're offering up delicate feminine frocks and fluid wide-legged pants that caress the body like a breeze. Pale tones, cool watercolors and neutrals are popping up all over in soft materials such as light wools, chiffon, crepe de chine and jersey. For the more daring, there's the citrus palette, with all its variations on lime green, orange and yellow. And for the downright bold, sheer fabrics are moving into daywear--although they're usually doubled in thickness, lined or worn with a body suit so that the nonexhibitionist majority can join...
...real-life horror movie, a cross-country killing spree that has triggered a nationwide manhunt. The police are looking for the man who may be driving that red pickup, a man who has been moving eastward, from San Diego to Minneapolis, Minn., to Chicago and now the New Jersey coast, using a series of stolen vehicles, a man who has been charged thus far with only one crime but about whom Philadelphia FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi noted, "Everywhere he's been, there's been a murder...
...danger? The novelist Walker Percy raised this point in his essays years ago. "Why," he asked, "is [a] man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?" Percy discussed the estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason for anxiety," Percy wrote, "yet it happens the reverse is true...When everything else fails, we may always turn to...the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and the Coming of the Last Days...
John Calipari (3) Ermenegildo Zegna in suits, shirts New Jersey Nets and ties of featherweight fabric