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...rush to a store about to close for lunch. No toothpaste here. I head for the private farmers' market, where prices are too high for most Soviets but the quality and selection are far superior to that in state stores...
...East Boston man was arraigned in December in Middlesex Superior Court on charges that he sexually assaulted a women he was working with in Holyoke Center, the prosecutor handling the case said yesterday...
...case of a Harvard professor and his wife charged with sexually abusing their grandchildren will go to trial in Middlesex Superior Court May 15, the prosecutor handling the case said...
Aside from feeling superior to a number of vile and foolish characters, what is to be gained from reading an overheated version of this "true crime"? Not much. In fact, a few things are lost. For example, the real names of some people who were central to the case. Even though these names are matters of public record and appeared often in newspapers, McGinniss changes them to, as he says, "preserve privacy." A more probable reason for fictitious identifications is to prevent libel suits. Because the impact of true crime depends on melodrama, the scenes and dialogue are liberally...
...mysticism and confronting beautiful theories with ungainly facts. "The so-called New Age," he maintains, "is really a throwback to the early times when we believed in ogres and devils and monsters and evil fairies. We knew so little about the world that it seemed filled with intelligences superior to our own. Naturally, we lived in terror. But now we know so much about the whole universe. Now we can concentrate on real evils...