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California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his...
Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat...
He picked its bones clean in The Human Zoo. He burped. He sniffed the air. He sighted, just upwind, a shaggy touch-me-feel-me shambling along. He struck again. This latest book results - but it is a joyless killing.
Sadat went on to draw a ludicrous analogy between his bad luck and that of his predecessor ("May God rest his soul") in 1967. A month after the end of the Six-Day War, said Sadat, an Israeli armored brigade was sighted edging up to the Suez Canal in what...
Though there is satire on Arnolphe's attempt to dominate and mold Agnes in School for Wives, its theme is simpler and more universal: love conquers narrowness and selfish obsessions. Moliere's genius is in depicting a character who is the apotheosis of some short-sighted way of looking at...