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...break for police in this unusual case came last June, after a 16-year-old bungled a holdup of a Chinese restaurant. He was shot by the owner and, once captured, told police a tale with a twist straight out of Charles Dickens. He said the leader of the gang of some 20 young men, ranging in age from 15 to 25, was Spencer Sawyer, 31, a maintenance supervisor. An imposing figure at 6 ft., 230 Ibs., with a full beard and shaven head, Sawyer had formed the nucleus of his gang while coaching a Little League team about seven...
...households across the U.S. there are now some 4 million personal computers, compared with only 70,000 at the end of the past decade. In those pioneering days only a handful of programs were available, and game playing was the principal pursuit of the home-computer owner. Today software programs number in the thousands, and game playing is still the main use of home computers. Nonetheless, two recent surveys by the Gallup and Roper organizations show that this pattern is starting to change...
...biggest newspaper group (86 dailies), sold the money-losing Tribune to Journalist Robert Maynard, 45, who is, like 47% of Oakland's residents, black. Said Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth: "We had other prospective buyers, but we felt it desirable for the community to have a dedicated local owner...
...Owner Maynard has been at the Tribune as editor since 1979 and publisher since 1981. He believes he is the first black to hold any of his positions at a large metropolitan daily with a primarily (62%) white readership. But he dismisses his ground-breaking status as "one of the world's more boring statistics." Says he: "The issue is the quality of the paper, not the color of the executive...
...move is a sentimental journey for Kinsley. A Rhodes scholar, he was a student at Harvard Law School in 1976 when New Republic Owner Martin Peretz named him managing editor. Among Kinsley's duties was editing TRB. He gave up editing in 1981 because he "preferred writing," but within six months he took the Harper's post "because it looked like a great job." Says Peretz: "Michael believes in institutions, and TRB is an institution...