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According to the police, that 1979 note, which admits to 11 crimes, among them the killing of an "old man in a trailor [sic] . with a 22 rifle," was written by Davis and passed to a guard at the St. Clair County jail on Sept. 9. Police maintain that Davis was then removed from his cell at 10 p.m. for a five-hour tour to help investigators look for evidence. At the tour's end, they say, he signed documents prepared by police in which he confessed to more than 20 separate criminal charges of murder, attempted murder and robbery...
Poor Daniel Altman. He was born too late. His heart yearns for the "activistic" [sic] '60s. Those were high days; ours are low and apathetic, he writes ("The Passive Nation," column, May 1, 1995). But are they...
...January/February issue of LinguaFranca. a magazine that reviews academiclife, Susannah Hunnewell notes at the end of areport on the Figaro case, "Whatever Loupin's[sic] errors, he may have been on to one thing:Harvard's French department is in some disarray...
...sense, Loupin [sic] can't be blamed forwondering if 'old authors are suspect' at Harvard;two of the French department's four tenuredprofessor, namely Suleiman and Jardine, specializein twentieth century literature," Hunnewell adds...
...identifies the offending country, the military service, the plane, even the bomb ("given the name 'Little Boy' by the B-29's crew" [sic]). It notes additionally that among the dead at Nagasaki "were people from many other countries, such as Korea, China, Russia, Indonesia and the United States." These are about the only historical facts in a story otherwise devoted to burning flesh and dying babies as seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl...