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Star Wars fans love to stand in line - for movie tickets, for Billy Dee Williams' autograph, for limited-edition anything. That much was clear Thursday, as a few thousand of them contentedly cooled their heels in a line that wound around the Los Angeles Convention Center on the first day of the largest Star Wars party in history, Celebration IV. The event, only the fourth official Star Wars fan gathering ever, marks 30 years since a fictional galaxy far, far away burst into our cultural consciousness and gave grown men an excuse to hang onto their toy collections. By Memorial...
...arrived in Cambridge on Thursday and was scheduled to spend Friday participating in what appeared to be a series of meetings related to her candidacy for one of Harvard’s most powerful posts...
...popped to second.Harvard wouldn’t get a runner in scoring position again until the final inning.Despite the losses, the weekend showcased two great performances from the Crimson despite many players having to deal with final exams. Several players had to take exams in Hempstead either on Thursday morning, on Friday before playing Hofstra, or right after yesterday’s contest.“I’m exceptionally proud of this team—we have an extra opponent in final exams,” Allard said.—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached...
...first state to declare a moratorium on executions, the sentence handed down Thursday by an Illinois jury in the notorious Brown's restaurant murder case shouldn't have been all that surprising.The state jury rejected the death penalty against one of two men accused in the gruesome 1993 murders of seven restaurant workers outside Chicago, a decision that amounted to a major defeat for the area's top prosecutor. What is perhaps more surprising was how some of the very families whose loved ones were slain considered the sentence a victory...
...days leading up to the penalty phase of the trial, some of the victims' families stood in a seemingly awkward alliance with the family of Juan Luna, the man convicted of the crime, denouncing the death penalty as an inhumane punishment. Thursday evening they got their wish. The verdict took only two hours of deliberation, and it ensures that Luna, convicted last Thursday after a 14-day trial, will spend the remainder of his life in prison. James Degorski, the second man charged in the case, one of Illinois' longest-running murder mysteries and worst massacres, is expected...