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Jerome Brown had been driving without a license for two years, police say, before fate caught up with him. On May 28 he lost control of his girlfriend's 1989 station wagon while driving on a curvy road in Salisbury, Maryland. The skidding car hit a mailbox and a telephone pole before wrapping itself around a tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended...
McCarthy roved west in the early '70s, looking for a spot that hadn't been written out. The second Mrs. McCarthy wasn't invited along. Published words about the South were everywhere, thick as clematis on a mailbox. This border territory, though, offered room. And it came with a history. As McCarthy writes in his new novel, "A good deal of what could be seen in the world had passed this way. Armored Spaniards and hunters and trappers and grandees and their women and slaves and fugitives and armies and revolutions and the dead and dying. And all that...
...anxiety is down; I'm not running to my mailbox any more," Bianchi says. "It's not a situation I want to be in, but it's a reality I might have to face--especially in this kind of year...
...trash last Sept. 15, for instance, signaled Ames' interest in scheduling a meeting in Bogota. It read, in part, "If you cannot meet ((piece missing)) 1 Oct, signal North after 27 Sept with message at Pipe." Through electronic and personal surveillance, investigators soon decoded the message: North was a mailbox where Ames and his handlers conveyed impersonal, prearranged messages; Pipe was the dead drop where detailed messages, instructions and money were exchanged...
Yesterday, her Science Center mailbox was still empty...