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...photograph of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles [April 18]: Camilla would have been more tastefully dressed if she had not been wearing white or something awfully close to it, and her broad-brimmed hat looked like a lampshade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 9, 2005 | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

DIED. PERCY HEATH, 81, nimble, forceful jazz bassist and last surviving charter member of the esteemed Modern Jazz Quartet, whose finely organized arrangements and restrained sound were sometimes called cool jazz; in Southampton, N.Y. An accompanist to such greats as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, he provided the low-key backbone of the innovative Modern Jazz Quartet from 1952 until the enduring ensemble finally dissolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 9, 2005 | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...addition, Judge Patrick F. Brady sentenced Parker and the Vasquez brothers to an additional nine to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping charges and Luis Vasquez to a second consecutive life sentence for raping Nachtwey before she was killed. If the murder charges are overturned on appeal, Parker and the Vasquez brothers would still have to serve out their other sentences...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Convicted in '01 Pit Murder | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...Parker and the Vasquez brothers were also convicted of kidnapping Nachtwey, a Hawaii native who had moved to Cambridge several months before her murder. Luis Vasquez was also convicted of rape...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Convicted in '01 Pit Murder | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Procopio said that Parker and the Vasquez brothers were the leaders of a gang that had tried to recruit Nachtwey and some of her friends. But, Procopio said, when Nachtwey’s boyfriend, another “Pit kid” named Gene Bamford, and some other recruits refused to carry out orders from the gang leaders, the defendants struck back by raping and killing Nachtwey...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Convicted in '01 Pit Murder | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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