Word: robin
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...poll's results and the statements of postal officials bear out Cooper's cynicism. Though the survey found that a majority of residents want to keep their post office downtown (including 79% of the senior citizens, who tend to walk there), postal spokesman Robin Wright dismisses the stay-putters as "emotional" and says the poll "is a private kind of deal" to "help us with our strategy." An internal Postal Service document makes this "strategy" as plain as bureaucratic doublespeak can be: "Provide a clearer identification of the 'real' underlying concerns by the antimove advocates, along with compensatory responses designed...
...competition, teams played in four round-robin games, each with two seven-minute halves...
Withers tends toward the darkest possible explanation of what happened: that "somebody did bad things to these people." Theories based on mere familial conspiracy do not explain the Murray-O'Hairs' sudden abandonment of the house, Robin's car and their canines. "They loved their home, and I want to tell you, man, they loved those dogs," says Kerns...
...turned out to be Jon Murray's, but the man, who identified himself as Murray, turned out to be an impostor. Sparrow told TIME that after the transaction, the bogus Jon got into a car driven by a couple that fits the general description of the real Jon and Robin. Nonetheless, some think that Jon's phone silence is permanent. "My brother had a tendency to fall for con games and con artists," says Bill Murray. With newfound wealth, "he may have been baited into something that he was unable to control. I believe one or more of these folks...
...Governor George W. Bush to have the Texas Rangers take over the investigation. Murray's letter of request made some remarkable assertions--that someone is still cashing his mother's Social Security and Veterans Administration checks, and that someone is placing charges of about $1,000 a month on Robin's American Express Gold Card. Most damaging to the American Atheists, he claims that interest from the infamous New Zealand "trust fund," from which they contend Jon removed the $629,500, is not listed on their tax returns. "It is my belief," Murray adds darkly, "that funds were moved from...