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...across some towering cranes and rusted tracks. It reads: WELCOME TO FLINT, PLEASE BE CAREFUL. It is an uninspired sign featuring a cartoon CSX conductor--one of those corporate image-enhancing niceties that until a few weeks ago blurred into the desolate industrial landscape like so many slabs of sheet metal. For whom the sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away for motorists traveling the nearby interstate to view it. In hindsight, though, one can only wonder whether the sign is intended for that small population...
Less somber, but still a fog-shrouded mystery of the sea, is why it is hard to love even the sleekest boat made of fiber glass, or sheet steel, or sprayed ferro-concrete. And why, if you like boats at all, it is hard not to love even a squat, stumpy and probably leaky boat made of wood. Two amiable new books about the perilous beguilement of wood boats are Sea Change, by Peter Nichols (Viking; 238 pages; $23.95) and Sailing in a Spoonful of Water, by Joe Coomer (Picador; 256 pages...
...have no way of distinguishing on our grade sheet between truly exceptional and just a skin-of-your-teeth A," says James E. Davis, head tutor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology...
...prosecutor close to the case. Indeed, both Zakaria and Peters, who were with Markhasev that night, informed police that their companion told them he shot Cosby because the victim was uncooperative. But Zakaria, who comes from a well-to-do family in Huntington Beach, Calif., has a rap sheet two pages long that includes such charges as assault with a deadly weapon, obstructing an officer, burglary and buying cocaine. And another couple who may be called to place Markhasev at the crime scene has the dubious distinction of being alleged crack suppliers to Markhasev, Zakaria and Peters...
While Globe editor Tony Frost maintains his sheet did nothing wrong--"We will never turn our backs on the truth or our readers"--people at the rival Enquirer are shocked, shocked. "Without the Globe basically pimping this woman," says Steve Coz, editor of the Enquirer, "Frank Gifford would not have been in that hotel room. This is the most heinous act that I've ever seen in journalism. When you set out to entrap Frank Gifford, you are basically setting out to destroy his marriage." Without engaging in a debate about the Globe's ethics or Gifford's morals...