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...wear and tear"--as he describes it--hurt Weisbrod. He woke up the Sunday morning after the season's opening weekend against Brown and Yale with what "felt like a muscle pull" in his lower back. But the pain subsided, and he travelled to Princeton to play the following weekend...
...year-old girl and her 44-year-old mother were brutally murdered in Norfolk, Va. Their sometime housemate, a drug addict named Joe Giarratano, woke up from a stupor, saw the bodies and confessed to the killings. Last week, just three days before Giarratano was scheduled to die in the electric chair, Governor L. Douglas Wilder commuted his sentence to life in prison and offered him the chance to seek a new trial...
...spite of all this self-justification, Gorbachev denied that he gave the order to shoot. "I learned about what happened when they woke me up the next morning," he said. Interior Minister Boris Pugo and Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov shirked responsibility as well. The decision was made, said Yazov, by the army commander in Vilnius, whose assignment was to protect "all members of society...
...sensation." It was also his introduction to the kind of Hollywood fable that he would later live out. "Now I was fascinated with America. When I got to junior high school, I thought, 'What am I doing here?' The action was somewhere else. And all of the sudden, something woke up. It was an urge that I was meant for something big. If anybody asked me about getting to the top in acting and making movies -- becoming like a Clint Eastwood or a Warren Beatty or a Burt Reynolds -- people would say, 'Do you know what it takes...
...depending on his classes, and retires sometime between 1 a.m. and 2:30. He naps whenever he gets a chance, but that does not always work well. "A few weeks ago," he recalls, "I had a break between two morning classes, so I slept. But when I woke up, the morning class I had attended felt like it never happened. It seemed more like a dream." On weekends he heads for bed at 3 a.m. and doesn't get up until...