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...five siblings with wooden sticks and electric cords. At age five, he was hit in the head with a brick. At 10, one of his brothers hit him so hard on the head with a baseball bat that the bat broke. Another time, his mother smashed a dinner plate on his head. None of these injuries was ever treated. His IQ has been measured at 74, which is considered semiretarded. None of this information was presented at Carter's original trial for the robbery and murder of a gas-station clerk. The jury found him guilty in 10 minutes...
...juniors and seniors have really had to step up to the plate these last few years," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "When they came here we didn't have the talent base that could take the pressure off players like Ben. Unfortunately for this team to be successful, it's important that they do step into that role...
...American public is concerned. And now that Iraq has made good on its threat to withdraw its escorts from the U.N. weapons inspection team led by former U.S. Marine captain and Gulf War veteran Scott Ritter, it may just have handed his home country a hero on a plate. Ritter, derided in the Iraqi press as a "hyena" and CIA spy, made the most of his 15 minutes of fame with an impromptu press conference outside the U.N. compound in Baghdad. The refusal to provide escorts, he said, amounted to "a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligation...
...psychologists are treating it as a genuine, stand-alone disorder. There are Websites devoted to the topic, including one--the Database of Unsafe Driving--that allows Web users to enter not only an account of their experience with an aggressive driver but also the "insane moron's" license-plate number, along with a proposed punishment. (Several of these--surprise!--are obscene...
...city that celebrates sin, as of the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve you can't walk into a bar and light a smoke. In the entire state of California, a fragile plate cracked head-to-toe by the sheer force of political extremes, you can no longer enjoy the leaf in the gin mill of your choice...