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ARRESTED. DENNIS RADER, 59, a city worker suspected of being the BTK serial killer, linked to at least eight murders in the Wichita area in the 1970s and '80s; in Park City, Kans. The killer, who bragged of his crimes in letters to Wichita media in the late '70s and suggested his nickname (the initials stand for "bind, torture, kill"), had not been heard from for 25 years when he resurfaced last March with a letter to the Wichita Eagle, taking responsibility for a 1986 killing...
...wasn't going to advance any further. I moved to my current firm, Nielsen-Wurster Group, a 250-person management-consulting firm based at that time in New York City, that does risk management and dispute resolution. When I started working on the West Coast, around the late '80s, the project manager called the president and said, "We would really, really like to hire your company, but only under one condition. That you don't put Pat Galloway on the job, because we just really are not going to be able to deal with a woman on this project...
...nation, students play the notorious game of “Beirut.” Little do most people know, the action of tossing a ball into a beer cup derives its name from the sustained bombardment that Beirut, Lebanon suffered during a bloody civil war in the 1970s and 80s. This carnage, however, has transformed into a distant memory for most Lebanese. Beirut is hailed as a rejuvenated city of fortune. Recently, however, Lebanon suffered a stark reminder of how unstable and ill-fated the Middle East can be. The assassination of one of Lebanon’s most prominent...
...group dormant since 1997, when songwriter David Gedge began recording more mature and Baroque-styled pop songs under the name Cinerama, collaborating with girlfriend Sally Murrel. The relationship has recently ended, and Gedge has returned to the band he made his name with in the late ’80s. Unfortunately, he hasn’t fully shaken the musical indulgences that set Cinerama’s music apart from the brash and jangly sound of the Wedding Present—though at some choice moments the WP formula shines through and we realize what we’ve been...
Nowhere on the album is this more apparent than on the track “Ringway to Seatac,” where a guitar intro reaches back for the lo-fi grindy sound of the pre-Albini Wedding Present albums of the ’80s. Like the songs of that era, Gedge’s voice doesn’t dominate, and is sometimes barely intelligible underneath the crunching guitars. It’s a vintage Wedding Present move, and this song, with lyrics emerging about “being five hundred miles away?...