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...unnamed suspect told the police that Terry had committed suicide and that he had buried her body, but he refused to say where. Instead he handed his interrogators two sheets of paper. One contained a crude map with three rough drawings of what could be outlines of countries. They were marked by Roman numerals. The other listed what looked like obscure chess moves...
...promising youngsters from the nearby Charlotte- Mecklenburg public school system who are in the middle -- not at the top -- of their class. Special consideration is given to those who have the potential to be the first in their families to go to college. "I call them diamonds in the rough," says Love of Learning director Brenda Tapia, who is also Davidson's assistant chaplain...
...boom-and-bust '80s may be history, but the banking rough-and-tumble is + now more pronounced than ever. In the U.S. the battered industry is selling assets to recapitalize itself after the debacles of Third World debt, the decay in value of high-risk junk bonds used for corporate buyouts and the collapse of the real estate market in several sections of the country. The mighty Japanese, now far and away the world's biggest banking players, are also being squeezed. Japanese banks face rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements...
...jump from his own balcony in Antibes -- as "the most considerable, the truest and the most fascinating young painter to appear on the scene, in Europe or elsewhere, during the last 25 years." His influence was wide. Those cakes of thick pigment, those creamy, generous brushstrokes inlaid like rough marquetry over their contrasting grounds, struck many artists in the 1950s as a viable alternative to the linear, quasi-geometric abstraction that had grown out of the cubist grid. But though De Stael had a healthy effect on two or three major artists, especially the English painter Frank Auerbach, most...
...father's academic career to Japan. When he was eleven, the family returned to Los Angeles, where he eventually drifted into the music slipstream and decided that "the only way to play rock music was to live." That meant skipping college. That meant parental disapproval. That meant some rough knocks and tight corners...