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Tuesday night's one-hour vigil -- led by Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles -- was private and said to be very emotional. More than 400 people attended. Sinatra's widow, Barbara, was comforted by her son, New York attorney Robert Marx. A medley of Sinatra songs was played, a choir sang and there were reminiscences by Sinatra's daughter Nancy and granddaughter Amanda. Tony Bennett also spoke before the rosary was recited. Choir member Chris Green quoted Bennett as saying of Sinatra: "We all fell in love, fell out of love, and fell in love again...
Guess KERRY WOOD was ready for the major leagues after all. The 20-year-old Chicago Cubs pitcher tied the record held by the venerable Roger Clemens when he struck out 20 Houston Astros last week. (Perhaps he ought not go home to Texas this off-season.) Of course, Clemens did it twice, 10 years apart, but this was only the fifth game of Wood's major league career. "It was just one of those days when everything you throw is crossing the plate," Wood said. "It just felt like I was playing catch." If he can keep this...
...biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle and for herself and for women wronged, and only when Michelle developed gonorrhea did she come out of hiding, certain the courts would believe her now about what a pervert Roger Jones was and what fools they all had been. But they didn't. And Michelle was lost to her again...
That first husband, Roger Jones, became a hunted man, suspected of molesting countless children. In 1990 he went on trial in Florida for abusing a 13-year-old girl. Faye was there, wearing a black veil, to watch with icy glances sharp enough to castrate the bastard. And Jones, who earlier had become the first person ever to make the FBI's ten-most-wanted list for sex crimes involving children, was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, and will die in jail...
...squareness. The words have changed over time--coolness vs. geekiness, fly vs. fool--but the concept is as venerable as the separation between church and state. Growing up, every American boy has to figure out whether he wants to be like Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, Mickey Mantle or Roger Maris, Dennis Rodman or Michael Jordan, John Lennon or Paul McCartney...