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He is currently circulating a petition around the city asking that the exterior be preserved.
He meant people like Hill. A native Mississippian with three children, the clean-cut, ever smiling 40-year-old was an ordained minister and regarded as an ideal neighbor. Yet his father had signed a warrant against him for assault when he was 17, and an ex-pastor confides that...
Revulsion at Hill's act may indeed turn many Americans away from pro-life activism. But it may also encourage a tiny, violent minority, much as the Gunn murder appeared to activate Hill. David Trosch, a Roman Catholic priest who signed Hill's petition, has publicly recommended "massive killings of...
But Jillson said voter interest outside the Boston metropolitan area shouldn't come as any surprise--about 75 percent of those who signed the petition bringing rent control to a referendum came from outside the area, she said.
The person who spurs Richard out of his marital torpor is Anna Danilova, a young Russian poet who arrives in London in 1990 on an apparent mission of mercy. Her brother, having served a sentence back in Moscow for currency violations, is still being held in jail. Anna's plan...