Cover Stories
Up to this point I have got on with officers. I've occasionally enjoyed officers. I’ve even I guess learned from officers; but no, I have not fully, openly conversed with one. Jawed with no self-edit. Shot the actual shit.
Barracks, Jack: double tiers of extremely made beds. Everything's so beyond-life antiseptic you could eat off — well I wouldn't eat off the floor, but I’d feel pretty safe having open heart surgery on it.
"Sports writers have tremendous penis envy" says San Diego Padres catcher Terry Kennedy. “They're envious of our position, and they’re envious of our salaries. Every time they write about us, they rip us.” Kennedy, though …
Just before one on Friday afternoon, members of Masjidul-Taqwa, a Muslim mosque or masjid, are parking their cars along the 2500 block of Imperial Avenue. The women's heads are wrapped, turban-style, in colors and patterns …
The courtship of Hannah and Roger is a story that Thoreau would value for its philosophical interest, raising questions as it does about whether one is bound to follow the laws of man or those …
As Alvin Ducheny and I roll through Barrio Logan in his dirty white Mercury Lynx, I ask him. “Why do so many people hate your guts, Al? You’d think you were a Communist or something.” …
“What I don't understand is how people can be so cruel to each other.” this big, kind, brokenhearted cowboy was saying. Just two days ago, he had walked into a restaurant in Phoenix and ordered …
Flash back a few years. We are about to witness an act of what appears to be extraordinary masochism. Terry Sheldon is standing out on West Point Loma Boulevard, looking at twenty acres of marshland. …
Thuy told me, "They set up a trap with armed soldiers along the trail to your camp. I felt something was wrong, but it was too late to turn back."
They locked me in a metal box that was just big enough for one person to lie down in. I stayed in that miserable box for nine days.
Sherry Richardson wanted a change in her life, wanted to get away from the States for a while. She had a woman friend in Mexico she could stay with as long as she wanted, so …
According to the department of fish and game, the catch of one-and-one-half fish per angler hour in the Salton Sea was much higher than any other non-stocked fishery in the state, marine or freshwater.
"We announce a building, and most campuses are announcing four or five, and that’s expansion?' exclaims William C. Rust. The president of United States International University was understandably touchy at the suggestion that the Scripps …
If you can imagine, for a moment, how Dennis Conner must have felt two and a half years ago, it will help you to understand one of the greatest ironies in sporting history. On September …
Wednesday morning, nine o’clock, a dozen men and women, alone and in couples, entered through the glass doors of the Senior Citizens Services office in city hall at 202 C Street. All were neatly and …
It is just past 9:30 on a cool Thursday night when locomotive engineer Jim Scudella radios for clearance from the San Diego Trolley controller to move out across the trolley tracks at Thirteenth and Imperial …