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...crime--Boulder's only murder in 1996--prompted grief and shock among the Ramseys' friends and general fears of a predator. After the initial stages of the police investigation, Boulder's communications director Leslie Aaholm assured citizens, "There's no need for concern." This comment raised suspicions, standing out as it did against a background of near total silence about the case by the police...
...very best pages here are without doubt the first 400, which Isherwood polished into a sharp-eyed narrative, and in which the shock of discovery between the kindly British ironist and California's odd circles of philosophers, quacks and movie stars was most electric. Isherwood's gift was for bringing a clear-eyed sympathy and an irreverent open-mindedness to even the most outlandish scenes. Almost every page, in Isherwood's best moments, is alive with immortal incident (Dylan Thomas pawing Shelley Winters at The Players restaurant, or a local hostess mistaking Stravinsky for "a comic on the Molly Goldberg...
...photo-essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
...goal of $1 million.“The lesson, I guess,” Evans says, “Is that you never know the influence you have—I had no idea that I had impressed those kids so much.”Evans recalls the shock with which he greeted the news of the Fund’s creation. “I thought one had to be dead or retired” to be honored with a scholarship, he jokes. “I remember saying to someone, ‘Do the doctors know something...
...Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn, reported that Ambrogi had been battling clinical depression. His suicide, however, came as a shock to those who knew...