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HOMER E. MYERS Vancouver, Wash...
DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...clear from the moment Jim Chatters first saw the partial skeleton that no crime had been committed - none recent enough to be prosecutable, anyway. Chatters, a forensic anthropologist, had been called in by the coroner of Benton County, Wash., to consult on some bones found by two college students on the banks of the Columbia River, near the town of Kennewick. The bones were obviously old, and when the coroner asked for an opinion, Chatters' off-the-cuff guess, based on the skull's superficially Caucasoid features, was that they probably belonged to a settler from the late 1800s...
...fact that their outrage against Summers stems from interactions that occurred in private and that they don’t want described in the press. “The problem is that many people have felt that it will not be good for Harvard if we wash dirty linen in public,” said Judith L. Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic literatures and languages, and the sponsor of the no-confidence resolution that the full Faculty would have voted on at its cancelled meeting Tuesday. “But because of our wish to protect the institution...
Karl S. Gilje Chief of Police Warden, Wash...