Word: took
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...Chicago officials struggled over how to handle the seven- and eight-year-olds in court. Would they have any idea what's going on? Not really. John Burris is the Oakland lawyer who defended the six-year-old accused of kicking Ignacio Bermudez Jr. "The prosecution in this case took the position that he was going to make the six- year-old responsible," Burris says. "But while the prosecutor was ranting and raving, this kid was drawing, sitting on his mother's lap, sleeping. He referred to me as the 'tall man.' He didn't understand what...
...dark underbelly; he rubs it lovingly; it is part of who he is. His inconstancy makes him flexible; his mistakes have made him smarter; he is a glutton for sympathy. And so last week, as he considered what to say under oath, the best and worst in him took the measure of the hopes and fears...
Well, prepare to meet your maker. Suddenly it seems humans are encountering mountain lions from Texas to Canada. Just last week rangers took the rare step of closing down part of the 25,000-acre Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, 40 miles east of San Diego, so federal trackers and state game wardens could kill a mountain lion that stalked three hikers in recent days. At one point, the lion even swiped at one of them, but it missed. And it gets scarier than that. In May, Mary Jane Cooder was taking pictures during a walk in Big Bend National Park...
...book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry her, was a drug addict and an alcoholic who left her for another woman weeks after their wedding, gave her herpes, beat her and spat on her and took a lover the day she brought their son home from the hospital. His parents were not exactly heavenly in-laws, blaming her for their son's excesses. Is that why they call themselves the True Parents...
...came as a jolt to members of the Manhattan publishing community--chief among them Whitney--when the revered editor was ousted a week ago and replaced by her rival, Cosmo editor Bonnie Fuller, 41, who took over Hearst's sex-and-the-single-girl book from Helen Gurley Brown just 18 months ago. Fuller's successor at Cosmo will be Redbook editor Kate White...