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Sad story of Jerry Quarry’s younger brother, Mike.

From the LA Daily News, 23 Aug 2006:
Ellen encouraged Mike to go to school so he could seek steady work, but his memory became so poor he couldn’t hold down a job. She can’t remember exactly when Mike was diagnosed with dementia pugilistica, but she said that it [...]

Interesting look at a murder investigation recently carried out by the Hampshire constabulary. The film focuses on how the investigating team approached the problem of identifying a victim and catching a murderer.
Some googling provide further information. Strangely, thisishampshire identifies a Detective Sergeant Richard Rowledge as the man leading the investigation. In the documentary, the Senior [...]

from Louis MacNiece, Autumn Journal:
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.
Our freedom as free lances
Advances towards its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon, my friend,
We shall have no time for dances.
The sky was good for flying
Defying [...]

Esther Rantzen writing in The Telegraph puts Tracey Connelley and Steven Barker, responsible for the death of ‘Baby P’, into an intergenerational context.
Were the social workers in Haringey aware of this? If they weren’t, will they be in the future?
The truth is that ordinary-looking people can conceal crimes so hideous that they are impossible [...]

From ESPN:

According to reports, he [Vernon Forrest] was robbed at a gas station, where he had stopped to put air in his tires and allow his 11-year-old godson to use the bathroom. A man approached Forrest and demanded his Rolex and championship ring, and after the man took the items Forrest pulled out his .45 [...]

Stephen Mitchelmore writing about the impact of a serious head injury in his blog, This Space:
I submitted and looked at the witness statements. One saw the cyclist fly into the air still holding the handlebars, then land to lie stock-still across the tarmac. The other witness got out of his car and ran over. After [...]

Geoff Nicholson and Will Self discuss the art of walking
Not a spectacularly interesting exchange, but this from Will Self wasn’t bad:

I very like the ‘munching on mental nothingness’ line, and it does apply
to me perfectly well, too. I liken it - again - to meditation: I set off thinking programmatically - or perhaps only troubled [...]

Andrew Gimson writing in The Telegraph yesterday:
One of the Prime Minister’s weaknesses as a debater is that he so seldom dares to think on his feet. Tony Blair liked to seize some novel thought or suggestion and send it winging back in modified form towards his interlocutor: Mr Brown just treats whatever anyone else says [...]

Not a great deal of insight in this report from The Star Ledger - a local paper in Camden, NJ. Former world champion Super Featherweight, Rocky Lockridge tells his story.

Former boxing champ Rocky Lockridge is homeless in Camden

Lockridge took a job working for William Jones & Son, Inc. in Camden, a drum and barrel [...]

Interesting to see facsimilies of letters to Judge Denny Chinn. The human suffering and rage which the Madoff’s book-cooking is something to behold.
Have a look at the pdf available at Nextbook.
The one from Phylis Lerner on page 41 is particularly striking.