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Trapped in their room by a broken lock late Thursday afternoon, the four residents of Strauss C-32 escaped by a window...
...residents said their lock had been hard to turn and generally temperamental since the beginning of the year. "Locking and unlocking it has always been difficult." said Yared Belai '92. "I guess it finally just decided to to lock itself permanently; unfortunately we were all still inside...
...through the room across the hall by sticking your head out the window and sliding your legs around the partition. My roommates left by that way but I stuck around in the room to wait for the locksmith to show up and repair the lock," said Balai...
Crossing into the U.S. near the Texas town of Del Rio, I spot an old mailbox that U.S. Customs has converted into a drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach...
VIRGINIA Former Governor Charles Robb is a lock...