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Second, consider the fact that recently I was the subject of a Gestapo-type arrest at five in the morning by scores of Harvard police charging me with multiple counts of threat and extortion brought by two members of CMES. I endured the hardship of nine days in jail, where I toiled in the kitchen from 5:30 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon every day, my name was defamed in the local and national media as an "extortionist" and it took me a taxing three months of legal and media battles until the D.A. dropped those charges...
...first week in Manhattan, three serial killers were arrested. It's the kind of news you don't know how to take--is it reassuring that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Burmese democracy leader enjoys first birthday at liberty after six years of house arrest...
That's not all the news from the New York dragnet. On June 20, a man cinematically know as the "Zodiac Killer" was finally apprehended after years of preying on the citizens of New York. His arrest came scarcely 24 hours after the equally dramatically epitheted "Elevator Rapist" was finally put in prison...
PLEADED GUILTY. SAVION GLOVER, 22, star of the Tony Award-winning Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; to a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from an arrest for impaired driving and marijuana possession; in New York City...