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Stallone plays an ex-Green Beret adrift in the Pacific Northwest, his final mooring cut loose by the discovery that his last surviving buddy from the old unit has died of cancer. Escorted out of a small town by an overzealous sheriff who mistakes him for a hippie (there is a certain antique air about the movie, which is based on a 1972 novel), he returns to assert his right to come and go as he pleases. This leads to jail, a breakout and the extraordinary wilderness chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands...
Early last March an anonymous caller told police in Ventura, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast, that a "Mr. Morgan" had been overheard talking about transporting large sums of money across state lines. Suspecting an illegal cash-laundering operation, Ventura detectives tried to trace Morgan. The trail led to Morgan Aviation, an aircraft repair shop in a leased hangar at Mojave Airport on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was operated by William Morgan Hetrick, who used his middle name as his first. Ventura police notified...
Adam Janus, 27, had a minor chest pain last Wednesday morning, so he went out and bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. About an hour later in his home in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Janus suffered a cardiopulmonary collapse. He was rushed to Northwest Community Hospital, where doctors worked frantically to revive him. "Nothing seemed to help," said Dr. Thomas Kim, chief of the hospital's critical-care unit. "He suffered sudden death without warning. It was most unusual...
...almost missed her cue. The fifth and last daughter in a family of 15 children, she grew up in Enid, Okla. (pop. 50,363), a town 65 miles northwest that of Oklahoma City whose residents are usually more intent on dealing in wheat, poultry and oil than nurturing opera singers. Her father, a Pentecostal minister, played a number of instruments by ear, and her mother, a nurse, was also a pianist. Leona inherited their musical gifts, singing in the church choir and dabbling with the violin. As a senior in high school, she once learned an aria from Aida...
...well-integrated on paper (roughly) half white, half Black or Hispanic), the rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Most have ended up on the neighborhood's northwest fringe, not too far from the edges of Roxbury, Boston's Black ghetto. The Black residents are simply being compressed into smaller areas; according to MIT urban studies professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas, the central Jamaica Plain area averages two or three persons per hours, in contrast to twelve in the mostly...