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Same As It Ever Was

Three years after the Denver Police Department promised to change its off-duty policies, tending bars still pays off.

By Tony Perez-Giese
Mar 18, 1999

It was March 20, 1996--three years ago this week--when 25-year-old Jeff Truax and his buddies stumbled out of the 1082 Broadway nightclub where police officers Kenny Chavez and Andrew Clarry were moonlighting. Until then, it had most likely been a relaxing evening for the cops. Pulling down $20 an hour...
Wise Gal

Anne Slemmons took Michael Wise's money and ran for the border.

By Tony Perez-Giese
Mar 18, 1999

By October 1997, Anne Liv Slemons had run out of options in Southern California. She'd never liked the warm weather anyway. So, six months pregnant and on probation for forging a $5,000 check, the 22-year-old ran. She didn't know where she was headed until she arrived in Colorado and found...
A Monkey Wrench

Animal-rights activists say CU researchers are worming out of a debate.

By Tony Perez-Giese
Feb 18, 1999

For the past year, a local animal-rights group has been badgering scientists at Denver's University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in hopes of getting them to publicly debate the merits of their monkey research. Despite the group's verbal challenges, letters and even the release of the CU animal-lab director's phone...
Virtual Depository

Todd Manns plans to shell out big bucks for a shooter as good as Lee Harvey Oswald.

By Tony Perez-Giese
Feb 4, 1999

Todd Manns thinks he's found a way to prove once and for all whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin. Using his company's firearms-training simulator, Manns is working on a virtual re-creation of the view from Oswald's sixth-floor perch in the Texas School Book Depository, from which he shot...
Drinking to Success

By Tony Perez-Giese
Jan 21, 1999

Frank Rich thinks he's found the keys to successful filmmaking: abstinence from women and dope. "Our motto was 'Keep your hands off the ass and your brain off the grass,'" says Rich. "No masturbation, no sucking on the bong. A clear head and pent-up sexual energy are very valuable tools."...

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