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Since that time, archaeologists, historians and architects have descended upon the site to dig up the foundations of the city, restore ancient buildings to their former grandeur, and unearth thousands upon thousands of ceramic remains, coins, and other artifacts. Fifty thousand photographs fill the files of their Harvard office, dozens of volumes fill the shelves, and hundreds of drawings and water colors have been made of the structures and relics of the past...
...student's locker is his home away from home." The administrators in New Jersey may have had a good instinct as their illegally seized evidence shows, but students still retain their rights. Again, the court. "He [the administrator] had, at best, a good hunch. No doubt hunches would unearth more evidence of crime on the persons of students or citizens as a whole. But more is needed to sustain a search." In effect, searching a student's locker is the equivalent of searching his parents' home...
...taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern American mystery authors, Macdonald developed...
...PROBLEM is that Weir's scattershot, almost stream-of-consciousness approach makes this theme almost impossible to unearth With a plot that gets steadily more indecipherable. Weir becomes incoherent with the gravity of his many messages. The signals are confusing from the start. When Guy Hamilton, a rough, unschooled foreign correspondent from Australia, arrives in Jakarta to make himself a name, it looks like we're in for a simple adventure romance. Having decided to put on some decent clothes since his appearance last summer in "Road Warrior," Mel Gibson looks and plays perfectly the stereotypical cub reporter--cheeky, brash...
...Greg Myers. Navy's Jim McMurtry--toil else-where in the Eastern League, no squad has a staff as deep, from top to bottom, as Alex Nahigian's Crimson. And with the revamped EIBL schedule calling for back-to-back, weekend double-headers, every team will have to unearth a fourth starter and third reliever every Sunday...