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After the baby arrived, the couple slept for a few hours, then returned to their colleges. At 5:30 that afternoon, though, Grossberg fainted in her dorm room. She was taken to a hospital, where doctors discovered that she had given birth within the past 12 hours and notified police that a baby might be missing. Grossberg's roommate told the police about Peterson, and they called Gettysburg College. There, a dormitory adviser and a campus security officer approached Peterson, who told them where the baby was. The police found bloody bed linens in each of the couple's dorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THREE KIDS, ONE DEATH | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear a cry or blurt out, "It's a boy"? Afterward, they slept for a few hours and took the car to the White Glove Car Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN WITHOUT SOULS | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under the bed; the alcoholism; the beloved brother Richard who put his head in an oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRED ASTAIRE MEETS THE SAD-SACK DOSTOYEVSKIAN PUDGE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...giddy boast that took flight and soared clear into tomorrow: "Let us build a bridge together, wide enough and strong enough to carry all of us into the bright future that is America in the 21st century." His face was flushed and glowing. He had not slept but was not tired. If he could have, he would have stayed in the moment forever. The messenger was the Message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASTERS OF THE MESSAGE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...California Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki, who is presiding over the O.J. Simpson civil trial, about the recent dismissal of an alternate juror who had slept through much of the trial. Judge Fujisaki later apologized for his comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 11/16/1996 | See Source »

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