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...talked to one man for 20 minutes about his idea to do an interview with an ex-addict, exgovernor from somewhere who was now running for re-election. I finally got him to understand that this wouldn't be a good idea for "Late Night with David Letterman." He was silent for a second, and then he said, "You mean, this isn't Nightly News...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: The First Line of Defense Against America's Nuts: | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...sadistic, sexually oriented serial killer who is inevitably a white male loner and usually intelligent." This type of killer, says Ressler, generally comes from a broken home, has had poor parenting and/ or was abused early in his life, usually doesn't marry, is often an alcoholic or drug addict and can be suicidal. Dahmer -- who according to his father was molested by a neighbor boy at the age of eight, though Dahmer himself denies it -- seems to fit most of these criteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...black possibilities. Vietnam taught many Americans about evil. Hasan i Sabbah, founder of a warrior cult of Ismailis in the 11th century in Persia, gave this instruction: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." It is a modern thought that both charmed and horrified William Burroughs, the novelist and drug addict who like many in the 20th century somehow could not keep away from horror. During a drunken party in Mexico in 1951, Burroughs undertook to play William Tell, using a pistol to shoot a glass off his wife's head. He put a bullet in her brain instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...year-old civil rights group. "The answer is no. It's a solution to a political problem. The problem we now face is fundamentally an economic problem." From that perspective, it does not matter whether the current bill passes, since neither version would help a single crack addict kick the habit, persuade a youngster to stay in school or give an unwed mother the training she needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quota Quagmire | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Testimony from many of the addicts themselves seems to support Durfee's argument. Doreen Flaherty, 27, a recovering crack addict from Garden Grove, Calif., remembers spending a week in jail after being arrested for possession of cocaine. "I kept crying in jail because I wanted to see my little girl," she says. "That's all that mattered to me." After she made bail, Doreen did not return home to her daughter but sought out a drug dealer instead. When a girlfriend tracked her down at the crack house, Doreen told the dealer to say she was not there. "How could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Take Away Their Kids? | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

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