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American-style croissants are more than just a fancy-sounding name for bread and butter. In addition to the traditional, or plain, variety, which usually sells for about 800, devotees can buy $2.50-plus croissants stuffed with everything from fruit preserves to ham, cheese and even beef bourguignon. "I was just looking for a cup of coffee and a doughnut, but I ended up with coffee and an apple croissant," said Stephen Fudge, a Canadian tourist in San Francisco. Added his enthusiastic companion, Susan Wood: "I'd take a chocolate croissant over a Big Mac any time...
...Jamaica Plain resident charged with the rape of a 19-year-old woman in the Arnold Arboretum last month will probably come before a Suffolk County grand jury within the next month...
...Roxbury municipal court judge found probable cause for the charges of aggravated rape and assault and battery after the victim identified Thomas J. Hourihan as the man who raped her in the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard's 278-acre tree park and botanical research facility in Jamaica Plain...
Roxbury police detective Thomas O'Rourke said yesterday that an "intensive investigation" is underway to find the assailant of Alice Bodnar, a Jamaica Plain resident who was released from the Faulkner Hospital in good condition March 31, two weeks after she was stabbed repeatedly in the back near the gate of the 278-acre arboretum...
Technically, Evans resigned; under the terms of purchase, Murdoch cannot sack the top editor without approval of a majority of the paper's national directors. But Murdoch's intent became plain during a four-day farce after the owner announced that Evans had resigned (for an undisclosed buy-out reported to be about $450,000), while Evans kept insisting he was still editor...