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This was suspicious enough to persuade the cops to dig further into Ridgway's background. They found the records of his 1982 arrest for soliciting a police decoy and the 1983 incident near the school ballpark. From his two ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend, they learned about his appetite for outdoor sex--and found he had arranged trysts, camped out or picked blackberries at as many as seven of the body dump sites...
...mainline its priorities into the President's thinking. Each day, the PDB is winnowed to a few pages; when the President is in Washington, one of two "briefers"--agency up-and-comers who flesh out the written text--gets to work at 2 a.m. to bone up on background material. The brief itself is delivered at 8 a.m. in front of the President's national-security team. (Sometimes CIA Director George Tenet delivers it himself.) One briefer had moved to Texas for the vacation, and the PDB was transmitted to Crawford over a secure system. At the briefing on Monday...
Kirby’s background as a scholar of Chinese history will balance a University administration, which features an economist and a scientist at the top, but had little representation from the humanities at its highest levels. This balance will help ensure the liberal arts are not neglected...
Tobey Maguire, as many have noted, is an unlikely action hero. Then again, so is Spider-Man. Maguire's own background as a lonely California kid may have been better preparation for his break-out role as the angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college...
...advocates have secretly wanted for years but have refused to say so openly—stripping law-abiding Americans of their right to defend themselves with arms and their right to bear arms for sport. Few are opposed to regulation of purchasing weapons, to safety training and to appropriate background checks; but fanatical anti-gun advocates want to take our rights away...