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...university does have a record of the scholarship, its donor unknown, yet Koernke elected to spend his freshman year at the less prestigious, less expensive Eastern Michigan University. While there he joined the ROTC program, cutting a vivid and peculiar figure. "I don't often remember students who were in only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell...
...year since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the case has been transformed into a spectacle gone terribly awry. Prosecutor Christopher Darden recently spoke with disdain of "this supposed truth-seeking process." One thing is certain: if Simpson were poor and unknown, it all would have been over months ago. "If O.J. were [represented by a public defender] in Jones County, Mississippi,'' says Robert Spangenberg, co-author of a 1993 American Bar Association report on indigent defense, "it would be a two-day trial, an open-and-shut case.'' Instead, if the bulletins from dismissed jurors...
Sarah, "Diane" and the other Directorate operatives who organized the lawsuit spoke with TIME, using aliases unknown to the agency for fear of retaliation. They say neither money nor the remedial promotions will fix the more profound problems within the DO. The CIA also insists on retaining the right to deny women certain overseas assignments when Western notions of gender equality collide with what the agency believes to be the practical considerations of running spies in male-dominated societies. Says a male former DO official: "Female case officers can't drive cars in Saudi Arabia. In Latin America...
...article in the undergraduate yearbook dubbed student anti-war protesters "The New Radicals." At the time, they were a largely unknown segment of the student body...
...smaller towns superstores are providing a welcome -- and previously unknown -- burst of urban energy. Borders opened a store in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania (pop. 55,550), in late 1992, and it is now the most popular spot in town, with its Saturday-night musical performances. "There are no major museums or galleries here," says Trudi Musselman, a management consultant who used to live in New York City. "When Borders opened, it was a godsend. I go there now before the library...