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...student reportedly did not have any money. The assailant struck him on the head, then fled in an unknown direction, police reported...
...owners of laptop computers. You must turn on the computer and, all too often, attempt to explain the concept of a C prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA. THIS IS YOUR TOSHIBA...
Anne Michaels takes some audacious risks in Fugitive Pieces (Knopf; 294 pages; $23), not the least of them being a brief introductory passage that reveals her novel's conclusion. "Poet Jakob Beer, who was also a translator of posthumous writing from the war, was struck and killed by a car in Athens in the spring of 1993, at age sixty. His wife had been standing with him on the sidewalk; she survived her husband by two days. They had no children...
CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...
...nasty reminder come election day: the words "Disregarded Voter Instruction on Term Limits" would be placed on the ballot next to their names. Opponents have called the measure a "Scarlet letter" in ridicule, while supporters have defended their efforts as representative of the public will. The Arkansas court struck down Amendment 9 as unconstitutional, saying it violated the Constitution's requirement that all amendments originate either in Congress or a state legislature. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that neither Congress nor the separate states could unilaterally impose term limits, meaning that it would take a Constitutional amendment...