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Dirt will have a limited newsstand test in late October, and the premier issue will be available next spring. The current Dirt is crammed with dark graphics and dense type. Articles range from a 23-year-old convict's account of life in an urban gang to Lewman's good-grooming checklist. Shampoos, he notes, are recommended "before school pictures and whenever your hair looks stupid...
...assailant has the victim in her apartment, on a rooftop, it can last an hour. So the information is there through every one of her senses, unlike other kinds of crime. No one forgets really. It's getting her to trust what you're doing, knowing that remembering can convict her assailant. And the conviction rate is very high. I take pleasure in being able to tell people about that high conviction rate because that's not what made-for-TV movies present...
...jury's decision to convict military officers for politically motivated murders is a first for El Salvador. But the country's justice system remains shaky. The identities of the five jury members were kept secret to safeguard them against possible retribution. And the presiding judge plans to leave the country after the sentencing next month. As for the convicted felons, their time behind bars may be short: President Alfredo Cristiani has not ruled out a possible amnesty...
...allow a murderer like Jeffrey Dahmer to profit from telling the story of why, and, even more grotesquely, how he murdered his victims does not send a message that society considers such acts despicable; indeed, it almost seems as if the government is making a deal with the convict: "You do the time, and if you write a book in prison, it's fine with us if you make a ton of cash to spend when...
...before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police. It would be a violation of the German constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, the judge contended, to convict an eastern German spy for something that western German spies continue to do legally. Both a former chief of West German intelligence and a former Constitutional Court judge have echoed that argument; a ruling by the court is expected by January...