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...Nolan's death in '66 than were written on Joyce in the first ten years after his death, the reading public in this country rarely encounters O'Brien's four English novels: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967) only the first and the last deserve the title "Modern Classics," with which they have now been honored with by Penguin. Stories and Plays, published posthumously this year, is a dish of leftovers, most of which have long since gone stale, offered up by O'Brien's publishers to feed...
...first to arrive at the scene of the crash was Policeman Garo Tomaevic. "I saw bodies lying all around," he told reporters. "There was a baby still giving feeble signs of life near the [British] plane, but even if the ambulances had arrived before me, it would have been too late to save...
...Alert. Teachers lead the inmates, one by one, through specific textbook cases: "You are not married but are the mother of a child fathered by ..."; "You arrive at National Airport from New York, and a policeman finds a pound of marijuana by searching your suitcase ..." The courses wind up with mock trials, in which the convict-students prosecute and defend cases before actual judges from the D.C. bench. Says Garland Poynter, head of education at the District of Columbia Jail: "Once you learn the system, you learn to respect it. It decreases frustration." Thanks to street law's practical...
...week's end the boycott was over, but thousands of blacks were still staying home to guard their property against arson and looting. "You are well out of that mess," a black policeman told a white reporter who tried to enter Soweto. "They have all lost their minds...
...final on Monday, Viren shot past him with a lap to go and then loped his light-footed way to a 30-meter lead at the finish line. As he ran a barefoot victory lap with his Tiger track shoes raised high above his head,* the 27-year-old policeman was paced by five ecstatic, flag-waving Finns who had hopped over a 6-ft. rail to join him. Four days later the distance was half as far, but the result was the same. In the last lap, Viren sprinted to the front and glided off from his challengers...