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Film-noir fans quickly spotted the similarities between the Kimeses and the mother-and-son team of con artists in The Grifters, the 1990 movie starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack. But any reader of dime-store detective novels knows that true grifters take their haul by trickery, not violence...
ORLANDO, Fla.: Giving birth on the Internet turns out to be a great way to get yourself in trouble -- but after two weeks offline and on the lam, the Internet Mom has turned herself in. According to law enforcement officials, Elizabeth Ann Oliver, 40, was wanted on nine misdemeanor warrants...
A professor had asked Tommy in 1973, "How are we going to work in the deep ocean?" Fourteen years later, his answer had produced a 2 1/2 ton submersible "that eventually would grow to six tons, with nine mechanical arms, some having as many as 11 segments," along with video...
Ed Sullivan, the poker-faced TV variety-show host, having spotted the effervescent moptops in mid-mob scene at London's Heathrow Airport the previous October ("Who the hell are the Beatles?" he'd asked excitedly), brought them over to play his show early on, in February 1964, and 70...
As the University prepares to send off its new graduates with all the fitting pomp and circumstance, the community nonetheless recalls a year spotted with tragedy.