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...original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park did for Bruce Springsteen in 1973. Buckley's rise was tinged with poignancy. Success promised to lift him at last out of the haunting shadow of his father, the brilliant folk singer Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose...
...alternative to the one brilliantly told by the government. Of course, the defense in a criminal trial does not have to prove anything, but in this case Jones probably would have had to fulfill his promise in order to win. How could he, though, if McVeigh lacked even the shadow of an alibi...
...Wilson's optimism is tempered by the fact that Radcliffe often finds itself dwarfed by Harvard's shadow...
DIED. ELBRIDGE DURBROW, 93, shrewd diplomat who for all his acumen could not maneuver the U.S. out of intemperate relations; in Walnut Creek, Calif. From the Moscow embassy, Durbrow witnessed the beginning of the cold war in the late 1940s. War seemed to shadow him; in 1957 he became ambassador to South Vietnam just in time to watch that region move toward conflagration...
...next morning I took one of my negatives of Louise, my seven-year-old sister, and with surgical tape attached it to my shoulder. I returned to the beach and burned the image onto my skin. And there it was, my father's lesson--the shadow of my sister on my shoulder...