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...inquisitive journalists. The author's focus ranges from the prostitute who, days before the assassination, tried to warn authorities of the threat to the president's life, to the aging Mafia figure who was killed and dismembered after he told journalists that Ruby was "one of our boys." A spate of these stories, told with glorious, gory detail, makes for chilling reading indeed...
Responding to a spate of hooliganism in 1985, 18 of baseball's 26 teams (including the Dodgers) have closed their bars after the seventh or eighth ^ inning, twelve have instituted nondrinking "family" sections, and a few have decreased the alcohol content of the beer and banned carry-ins. In Baltimore the unofficial Oriole mascot, beer-bellied Cabdriver Wild Bill Hagy, ceremoniously tossed his cooler off the upper deck in protest. "While it may have a number of social causes," says National League President Bart Giamatti, "fan unruliness cannot be separated from the issue of excessive use of alcohol. I have...
...time, but never with such haste and malign glee. Traditionally such books were more concerned with the virtues of policy than the vagaries of personality. Rarely were they published while a President was in office. Moreover, the archetypal insider stories were more kiss than tell: most, such as the spate of Roosevelt and Kennedy books, were unabashed hagiographies...
Since the age of 11, when she took first place in her native Taiwan's national piano competition, the Los Angeles resident has put together an extraordinary string of musical accolades: soloing with the Taipei Municipal Symphony orchestra, playing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic 10 times, and winning a spate of competitions, including the concerto contest at the Manhattan School of Music, where she spent a year before coming to Harvard...
...done things with these kids that no one else could do," boasts Director Franklin Tucker, a former high school assistant principal. His center opened last February after Boston schools suffered a spate of highly publicized violent crimes and a chilling upsurge in weapons -- more than 90 confiscated in one month. Roughly 300 students, ranging in age from eight to 21, have participated...