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Police hope that the arrest will end a month-long crime spree that has spread fear among first-years in the Yard and raised questions about Harvard's campus security...
Where is all this money coming from? True, we're living in a time of record employment, rising wages, a bloated stock market and a flock of newly hatched dot.com millionaires. But even these indicators of prosperity don't add up to the consumer-spending spree that characterizes the current U.S. economic boom. There's something else...
Here is the way one survivor tells it. When Larry Gene Ashbrook walked into the church sanctuary with his guns--a 9-mm semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened...
...rival to current military leader General Wiranto, wields considerable influence among officers on the island. That, together with rising nationalist sentiment against international intervention and the Indonesian government that authorized it - as well as the specter of war crimes tribunals shadowing those officers who helped organize the militias' killing spree ? could leave the peacekeeping force marching straight into a shooting...
...number of screens in the U.S. has soared 40%, to almost 35,000, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. And since every town with an economic-development plan sees the movies as some kind of retail miracle, the number may reach 40,000 before the building spree ends. Yet no matter how many geeks go to see a Star Wars film 17 times, it's doubtful they can fill all the seats. This could be a tearjerker for the accountants...