Dave Carroll is a Canadian musician who decided to chronicle a real life experience of how his guitar was broken during a trip on United Airlines, and the subsequent reaction from the airline.

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"He was known for buttering up the owners of clubs, " revealed Simon Griver, a journalist in Israel who writes for the Jewish Chronicle.

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Years later, a second victim, who survived the shooting, told the Houston Chronicle that he had been pressured by police to identify Cantu as the gunman, even though he believed Cantu to be innocent.

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What emerges from her chronicle is the story of a person who never let setbacks shake her self confidence, a Southern girl who learned to be a street fighter without losing her humanity.

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In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

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The following year, Phillips, who had been working in politics and philanthropy, pitched a similar column to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Kettman, a California native who grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, was a sports reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and cultivated a fondness for Fenway Park and the Red Sox while covering the Oakland A's for four years in the 1990s.

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