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...never-ending saga of the JonBenet Ramsey case has convinced everyone in America of one of two things: Either the Boulder police and district attorney are among the most intellectually challenged people in the world, or JonBenet was killed by someone who is not only crazy, but also incredibly lucky. On Wednesday, the grand jury looking into the case for the past handed out its long-awaited decision: They were unable to find sufficient evidence to prosecute anyone in the death of the six-year-old beauty queen. Ramsey?s parents, long considered prime suspects in the 1996 murder, expressed...
...rookie ??"Doobie?"?"It's Daubach, Mom" ? was having a fine campaign. Shortly thereafter the Sox went into Yankee Stadium near the tail end of a tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor radio as Caroline napped in the stroller and Luci shopped the Main Street boutiques. I was telling my sleeping daughter, "Clemens...
...with chemotherapy drugs dropped to the isolated settlement in a daring air mission. She's also made it clear that she's not keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack of specifics in the reporting: At this point, it?s not known for certain whether Nielsen actually has cancer, although the urgency surrounding the rescue mission...
...being baby boomers, what they were interested in was themselves. The result was thirtysomething, the landmark domestic saga whose characters' exploration of their own emotional landscapes owed a lot to the writers' penchant for self-examination. Not much has changed a decade later. "The minute I told Ed I was separating from my wife in '93," says Herskovitz, "he started to talk about all the stories you could tell...
...months ago, the saga took another twist. In a move that startled Kenyans, the President turned to Leakey for salvation. He named Leakey head of Kenya's civil service and secretary to the Cabinet, presenting him with a power base some insiders say is second only to the President's. "Leakey is recognized as a man of determination and integrity," Moi said in his announcement. "These are attributes which are greatly needed." Leakey, a white third-generation Kenyan, is given the job of overhauling Kenya's corrupt and inefficient public service and jump-starting the country's economy. Moi also...