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...stacks. From here I hopped on an elevator and pressed the button for the fourth floor. After exiting, I looked around for five minutes until I found the aisle containing BL.72.P38.1993X.UB40, the site of Pavlenkov's stirring tell-all on Buddha and his religion. Lying in the aisles were the bodies of Richard I and other crusaders who had given their lives in the quest for a book from Widener. I found the spot where the book should have been, but it was not there. Someone, or something, was plotting to stop me from finding this book. It was probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Impossible: Finding Library Books | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO COURT OF LAST RESORT | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...really like these things," he said fondly clutching yesterday's stack of 100 feedback cards to his chest. "I read them all every...

Author: By Ilana N. Kurshan, | Title: Box Asks Students' Opinions of Food | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...publishers are charging as much as 5 percent, which doesn't seem like a lot, but when you have a stack of a thousand books, it can add up quickly," he said...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Students Say Textbook Prices Are Too High | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...think we stack up fairly well [against the rest of the league]," Murphy said. "If we stay healthy, we'll be exciting. We feel we can line up and beat anybody on any given...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: For Gridders, Time to Rise and Shine | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

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