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According to my late grandmother, it wouldn't be love if it were any other way. In the absence of a consensus from the dictionaries, consider her homemade definition, "that tickle around your heart that you can't scratch...

Author: By Jim Cocola, | Title: Redefining Love | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Playing finger games with a cat, you're justinviting a scratch," she says, displaying a handcross-hatched with red lines

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Reporter's Notebook: | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...their absence, that residents are moving out, seeking work in cities, looking for a share in the postwar prosperity. So these young men decide to repeat the past. They dismantle the oven, load it on a truck and move it and their families farther west to start up, from scratch, another Oklahoma town, which they name Ruby to honor the woman in their clan who died after the journey. Ruby is 90 miles from anywhere else, which is just what the new patriarchs want, except for a strange old house 17 miles away known locally as the Convent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Boulder police are discovering that when it comes to the stalled 13-month JONBENET RAMSEY murder investigation, starting from scratch has its benefits. Cops had long suspected that a weighty black flashlight was used to inflict the fatal 8-in. head wound on the six-year-old beauty queen after she was garroted. The flashlight was spotted on the kitchen counter of the Ramseys' home on the morning that JonBenet's body was found, but then disappeared. Some investigators dismissed it as belonging to a police officer. But now, TIME has learned, the potentially vital piece of evidence has turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ramsey Case | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Boulder police are discovering that when it comes to the stalled 13-month JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation, starting from scratch has its benefits. Cops had long suspected that a weighty black flashlight was used to inflict the fatal 8-in. head wound on the six-year-old beauty queen after she was garroted. The flashlight was spotted on the kitchen counter of the Ramseys? home on the morning that JonBenet?s body was found, but then disappeared. Some investigators dismissed it as belonging to a police officer. But now, TIME has learned, the potentially vital piece of evidence has turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Light Shed on Ramsey Case | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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