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...death house, Beavers, who had waived his appeals and insisted that he wanted to die for the 1986 abduction and shooting of a Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden...
After the Cowboys' second Super Bowl victory, in January, the tensions boiled over. At an N.F.L. owners' meeting in Orlando two weeks ago, Jones was reportedly offended at Johnson's tepid response to a toast he proposed. Later, after some drinks, Jones pouted that there were "500 coaches who could have won the Super Bowl with our team." Johnson admits, "I got my feelings hurt by some of his comments," but says the incident was ultimately "beneficial" because "it forced Jerry and me to sit down and be candid about our feelings...
...some Swarthmore students believe that Bloom in his creative sentencing was succumbing to intimidation rather than battling it. "If I had my way, we'd tar and feather and toast him," says sophomore Laura Starita of Yearwood. "When you have someone like that, he's a danger to everyone on campus, especially women...
Start that toast with 502.5 fluid ounces of ginseng tonic, or make your own with $1,000 worth of the root itself: depending on the type you buy, one grand gets you 10 pounds of American white ginseng root, or 8.5 pounds of American red ginseng root, or five pounds of Chinese ginseng kivin root at Harnett's, Church and Brattle Streets...
...drug lords want not peace, but a piece of the action once controlled by the Medellin cartel. That was underscored late in the week by the wild celebrations in the city of Cali, where rival drug lords gathered at a party hosted by cartel ruler Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela to toast the death of a hated enemy who had sworn to kill them...