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College, even at its most abstract, is a very good time. You are entering an environment in which parental control is replaced by a readily available supply of alcohol. No one waits up and no one asks where you slept last night with anything but curiosity. You can go out whenever you want, but no one will ask why you never leave your room...
While President Clinton and his family slept in Blair House across the street, a Maryland man stole a single engine plane from a small airport near Baltimore, flew into protected federal airspace and crashed into the White House two floors below the President's bedroom window at 1:49 a.m. Several federal agencies are furiously investigating the event, in which the 38-year-old pilot, Frank Eugene Corder, was killed. The Secret Service said this afternoon that Corder, a freight truck driver, had "a prior history of mental illness" and had been distraught over the death of his father...
...family then spent a tense, hungry week at a quickly erected processing center. On board Nature Boy, in addition to 27 Rodriguez kin, the regime had placed several American journalists and 50 other strangers, some of them released prisoners. Edel's father warily stayed awake all night; young Edel slept through the voyage...
...wife and child. "The marriage was a mistake," says an Arab friend. "He never trusted women." That same friend says, "He didn't trust the governments he worked for. This is why he was often depressed." It also explains why Carlos always carried a Russian pistol and never slept two nights in the same place...
...first day in a Robeson County courtroom, state Supreme Court Judge Gregory Weeks decided the press coverage of the early rounds wouldn't prejudice all potential jurors. This afternoon, attorneys for Larry Demery -- one of two 19-year-old men accused of shooting Jordan last year as he slept in his car -- fought to see police dental records that supposedly identify the unrecognizable corpse. In the meantime, the lawyers contend Jordan faked his own death to escape debts and a threatened palimony suit...