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ARRAIGNED. JOHN WALKER LINDH, 21, American Taliban accused of aiding al-Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans; in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Lindh pleaded, "Not guilty, sir," as the family of CIA officer Johnny (Mike) Spann--killed at the prison where Lindh was captured--watched. Lindh faces life imprisonment if convicted...
Emily Findlay Brown, 66, and Jerry Willingham, 68, met while roller-skating in Alexandria, Va., at 16 and 18. "We went together one year," recalls Brown, a psychotherapist, "and then he dumped me." "She was going to go to Stanford," explains Willingham, a retired manager of airline mechanics, "and I knew it would be over for us. I was just going to beat her to the punch. It was 19-year-old logic." He had always hoped he'd get a chance to apologize...
...Club, in person she admits she is most proud of her less concrete accomplishments. She says she is happy that after two and a half years at Harvard she has maintained her wits, stayed sane and done proud her mom and the citizens of her hometown—Martinsville, Va...
...insurance firm, tried videoconferencing once before, to save money during the last recession, from 1990 to 1991. But "there were delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing would be a short-term solution at best...
...occurrences center on Point Pleasant, on the Ohio River in West Virginia. What Washington Post reporter John Klein (Richard Gere) is doing there he can't explain. He is not on the way to his original destination, Richmond, Va. Nor can he or the local police officer (Laura Linney) understand all the weird sights, sounds and phone calls the townsfolk keep reporting. All Klein knows is that the goings-on resemble a vision his late wife had just before succumbing to a brain tumor...