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Mick Jagger’s voice is still potent after all these years, and he still can strut his way all over the stage. Richards can play guitar with the best of them, despite looking closer to rigor mortis than a rock star for some time now. The local gossip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Rolling Stones | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Reichert tried to imagine the killer's movements. Where had the murderer dragged the bodies from? The grass beside the river grew up to six feet high; as Reichert searched the bank for the killer's route to the water, he seemed to make out a faint trail. He pushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Of Death | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

On Monday morning he didn’t wake up. When I ran past him on my morning run, I assumed he was sleeping in, a thought that made me smile to myself. I don’t know how the construction worker knew to call the police, as most...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dying Alone | 4/25/2001 | See Source »

Estrada had badly miscalculated in his bid to beat the impeachment trial. By winning the battle to suppress the evidence on a technicality - his defenders argued the material in the envelope was not relevant to the original impeachment charges - Estrada would lose all. It was that small victory that triggered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Power Redux | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Mozna and Mohammed Imad buried Wael with a bloody gouge between his eyes where the bullet had entered. He still clung to the stone he had been about to throw. The surgeon at Shifa had been unable to free the rock from the rigor mortis in the boy's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fields Of Fire | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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