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When Americans first became interested in the idea of criminal "profiling," it seemed a heroic pursuit. A decade ago we fell in love with Clarice Starling, the fictional FBI agent chasing a serial killer. But was Starling a racial profiler? Remember the scene in The Silence of the Lambs in which Special Agent Crawford asks for a description of the man the two are after? Her first answer is that the killer is "a white male." It just so happens that nearly all American serial killers have been white men. It just so happens that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage...
...fans--and hey, how 'bout that California State Railroad Museum? Nonetheless, after complaining for three years about how he was "bored to death" in California's capital and noting the conspicuous lack of both soul food and soul brothers in the area, the NBA's most sought-after free agent re-signed with the Sacramento Kings. "I know he was saying it was boring, and that stuff about the food," says Jeffrey Webber, Chris' younger brother and contract negotiator. "But there is no way that food or the city life was going to be the final denominator in this decision...
...been dogged by accusations of mismanagement, sloppy record-keeping and, most spectacularly, of misplacing thousands of files connected to the Timothy McVeigh/Oklahoma City bombing case. The recent arrest of longtime FBI agent (and accused Russian double-agent) Robert Hanssen only served to heighten the growing sense of internal disintegration...
...just for burning the SUVs but also for attempting to set fire to an empty oil tanker two weeks earlier. An accomplice, Craig (Critter) Marshall, 28, pleaded guilty and got 5 1/2 years in prison. "I think it's great," said Michael Morrow, head of the FBI's nine-agent office in Eugene. "It's just a matter of time before there are more arrests...
...hard to say, since we don?t know all the facts yet. I did just get off the phone with one agent who says there may be less to this story than meets the eye. This may well just be another case of bad record keeping. As we all know, the FBI?s record-keeping system is notoriously lousy, largely because of computer problems and general incompetence...