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...best-seller list last fall. DIED. L.C. GRAVES, 76, police detective; in Kaufman, Texas. It is an enduring image: Lee Harvey Oswald walking through the basement of the Dallas police building, his upper arm gripped by a black-hatted Graves, and inches away, Jack Ruby's snub-nose pistol. An instant later, as Oswald collapsed, fatally wounded, Graves grabbed Ruby's gun, preventing him from getting off a second shot. Graves left the Dallas police force in 1970; for the rest of his career he worked as a fraud investigator for a bank and resisted efforts to cash...
...contended that he didn't "think responsibility went beyond voting via secret ballot." In other words, be reckless on stage and civic-minded every two years for the thirty seconds it takes to check the box next to "Democrats." Way to go, Tom. You hit it right on the nose (we wish it were Geraldo's, again...
...fight we want to have,'' says an aide. ``[It] will speak volumes about who controls the Republican Party.'' He adds, ``We may not win it, but it's worth pointing out that one side of the party-- the right-to-lifers--are leading the Republicans by the nose.'' Christian Coalition leader Reed plunged into this strategy by declaring last Friday that--for his 1.5 million members--abortion would be a litmus-test issue...
Some movie stars measure their worth by how many millions of dollars they make. Jackie Chan, Asian action-star extraordinaire, measures his by how many of his bones he has fractured while executing his films' incredible stunts. Let him count the breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last...
Tomorrow morning will mark the long-awaited grand opening of Cybersmith, a cafe/store/technofest that is the first venture of its kind. This trial marriage of computer and coffeehouse cultures is located at 36 Church Street; just follow your nose to the Border, and then look next door. Cybersmith founder Marshall Smith, whose previous successes include Videosmith and Learningsmith, says he aims to "introduce people to new technology...in an atmosphere that isn't totally high tech" His store will offer three main services; access to the Internet, the latest in CD-ROM equipment and virtual reality encounters--all while sipping...