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Bush is not the real Texan he proposes to be. Nor will his effort to take the spotlight off Meese work. Bush will learn that not only do Texans stick together, but that they don't forget...
Police agencies readily admit that they can learn a lot about a person by examining household garbage. Both the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration regularly engage in trash searches, as do many police departments. "People throw away all kinds of things," observes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation. "Phone numbers, trace evidence, bank statements -- you'd be amazed." Most lower courts that have reviewed police trash searches have given them the green light, and now that the high bench has done the same, more detectives can be expected to prowl through refuse...
Just a few days earlier, Choreographer Debbie Allen had been counseling the young performers of Carrie about how to handle sudden stardom. But as the disheartening word spread backstage, the ensemble members realized that they might have to learn instead to handle sudden unemployment. Last week, less than 72 hours after it opened as the Broadway season's most opulent American musical, Carrie closed. Stephen King's 1974 novel about a tormented teenager with psychic powers became a best seller, then a multiple Oscar nominee as a 1976 movie. But onstage it set records of a different sort: losing more...
Though I have no immediate plans to meet my pen pal, I was happy to learn that people on the other side of the country actually care about what appears on this page. I also think that the sports page as a whole benefited from the exchange...
...liver, pancreas, small intestine and part of the stomach in February to correct a congenital defect. Last week, a record 6 1/2 months after a similar operation, three-year-old Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., succumbed to cancer. The lesson: physicians have a great deal more to learn before they can manipulate the immune system at will...