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...need to draw strength and creativity from the courage of a people that can somehow survive everything." He feels both excited and scared at the prospect: "You know what gets me out of bed in the morning? Fear of failure. Every day I start the day thinking, 'Jesus Christ! I'm going to fail...
...some form about once a month, and it was his last missive, sent to a Wichita TV station in February, that might have produced his downfall--and the cops' break. Inside the envelope was a floppy disc. The disc had an electronic imprint linking it to a computer at Christ Lutheran Church that Dennis Rader, the church-council president, used in late January, reportedly to print a meeting agenda. The disc, along with a DNA sample reportedly taken from Rader's daughter's medical records and forensic evidence collected in the 1970s, helped convince the cops that Rader was their...
When Rader was arrested two weeks ago, his church family was stunned. "If you listed 500 people who were going to be arrested for this, he wouldn't be on the list," says Bob Smyser, who sometimes ushered with Rader at Christ Lutheran. Rader was known as an attentive father who used to take his kids, now both adults, camping and fishing. An Air Force veteran, he had been a scout leader for his son Brian's troop, with a particular skill for tying knots...
Ever since a masked actor in ancient Greece was called “hypokrites” for his ability to make audiences believe he was somebody else—kings, czars, congressional candidates, and even that well-known anti-Pharisee spokesman Jesus Christ have carried the word like a sword, eager to slice an opponent for the ultimate political sin: disingenuousness. After all, once people are convinced that their leader is a phony—that the right words are followed by the wrong actions—what can he possibly say to redeem himself...
...multiply. Bloodshed and death turn up everywhere. You can grasp his evolution in the distance that separates the 1601 version of The Supper at Emmaus, which belongs to the National Gallery, and a version completed five years later, soon after he fled Rome. Both focus on the moment of Christ's appearance before two astonished disciples on the day of his resurrection. The London Supper is a work of high theater, produced by a man in full use of the blazing devices at his command. The beardless, youthful-looking Jesus, dressed in red and white robes, thrusts his right hand...