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...Acting on "motives of passion," Martinez charged, Echevarría offered a three-man contract-murder team more than $25,000 to do away with her husband. One of the deal's stipulations, the Secretary said, was that the hired team torture the victim before killing him. The trio brought along a fourth member to act as driver; he agreed to testify for the state in return for immunity from prosecution. Echevarría, who spent two nights in jail before posting a bond of $56,800, was cheered by fellow inmates on her release. She has not commented...
Success seems not to have spoiled the Trivial Trio; it has only increased their obsession with the money monster they created. Like proud parents with baby pictures, they push morsels of arcana on their visitors. "Who is the only U.S. President to have worn a Nazi uniform?" asks Chris Haney with an anarchic chortle. (Their answer: Ronald Reagan, in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.) Then they turn back to their work, the Haneys calling out sample questions they have researched in advance, and Abbott, perched at the keyboard of a small computer, tinkering with the wording...
...soared above the rim to tap in an offensive rebound, snared a defensive rebound and drilled a 60-ft. pass up court to Denise Curry for a score, stole the ball and traversed the length of the court for a layup, and finally attracted a trio of Korean defenders before passing deftly to Curry for another score. Her stats for the game: 16 points, eleven rebounds, five assists, two steals, all in just 23 minutes of playing time...
...trio of Third World megacities face similar problems
Indeed, the appearance of the magnetic arc was so unlike anything ever before observed in the universe that for weeks its three discoverers refused to accept their own finding. "We were very frustrated," says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a graduate student at Columbia University and one of the trio. "The first thing we thought was to try to get rid of the structure, to fudge the data. But it wouldn't go away...