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That friend, Roberta Lee, grew up with Thernstrom in the small town of Lexington, Mass. Both literarily inclined children of professors, the two maintained a deeply personal and prolific correspondence when Lee went to college in northern California. In her first year at UC Berkeley, Lee suddenly disappeared. Thernstrom immediately went west to help in the search, to discover, weeks later, that Lee's sexually violated corpse was found buried in a shallow grave. Lee's boyfriend, Bradley Page, who had diligently helped in the search, confessed to the crime...
...Manhattan. Every day, Monday through Friday, she awakens at 6:00 a.m., prepares for work and, if two-year-old Trevor stirs, snatches a few minutes of "quality time." At 7:10 she walks to the train station near her Connecticut home; by 8:30 she is in her Lexington Avenue office. During the next nine hours, she juggles the demands of clients and researchers, creative teams and media people. But no matter how hectic it gets, Crolius usually manages to catch the 5:18 train. When she reaches home, Trevor is waiting...
...Fleck moved to Lexington, Ky., to help start a group called Spectrum. Exposure to bluegrass -- the real thing -- was a "big culture shock," he admits. "I was a little cocky, but down South, they didn't think I sounded so great because I lacked tone and I didn't have a great sense of rhythm. They were right." In 1981 Fleck moved to Nashville and joined the group that would be his musical home for the next eight years: the New Grass Revival, which played what Bela calls "high-tech bluegrass with a lot of heart and intensity; the singing...
...three years Colin Richardson faithfully made every payment on the $125,000 mortgage on his small auto-repair shop in Lexington, Mass. But last February the Bank of Boston suddenly called in the loan. The bank, which was responding to pressure from U.S. regulators to tighten credit standards, relented only after an outraged Richardson went public with his plight by telling it to reporters in a one-man media blitz. Says he: "It would have made no sense to close my doors and sell everything off just to pay back the bank. How absolutely ridiculous and astounding for a little...
...Cambridge is somehow lacking in the traditional trappings of patriotism, it failed to show yesterday on the 215th anniversary of Dawes' historic ride through Cambridge to Lexington and Concord...