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...Houston case that argued against shooting "pretrial detainees." The incident involved Roland Brothers Jr., a Texas man arrested in 1998 for auto theft, who was shot by sheriff's deputies while trying to escape. His family sued, claiming the act was unconstitutional. Today's decision resolved a nine-year-old legal contradiction: In 1985, the High court struck down a Tennessee "fleeing felon" law allowing such force, but a federal appeals court the same year said that ruling shouldn't apply once a criminal suspect had been arrested.WITCH-STATE SEPARATION? The Court also nixed a Florida man's suit against...
...about it, but no one has anything else on their mind. With more snow and new waves of fog on the way, we'll be left alone in our misery, left alone to wait endlessly for more overcast mornings, forcing our eyes open to face another day. My nine-year-old son told me this week, through the crackling of Sarajevo's last remaining telephone line: "This is the third birthday I'm celebrating without you, and you promised to be here every time." My older son, already becoming a young man, says, "Don't worry, Dad; I understand...
Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe. Lynn Jeneta, 29, took her nine-year-old son Ron. If he got scared enough, she decided, "maybe then he wouldn't be lying there himself one of these days." She pushed him right up to the coffin. Ron tried to stay calm. "Some kids said Yummy looked like he was sleeping, but he didn't look like he was sleeping to me." What exactly then did he look like? "Kind of like he was gone, you know?" His composure melts. "When Mama pushed me forward, I thought...
...eighth novel, Mr. Vertigo (Viking; 293 pages; $21.95), Auster again dips into the collective memory bank, offering a hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than...
...cassette package) reached $1.2 billion in 1993, up 40% from the year before. Titles and celebrity readers are proliferating. Sharon Stone has just been signed to narrate The Scarlet Letter. Gone With the Wind is about to be released on tape for the first time, unabridged on 30 cassettes. "Nine years ago, only 8% of the population had heard a book on tape; now it's close to 25%," says Michael Viner, co-founder of Dove Audio, a nine-year-old Los Angeles company that helped pioneer the field...