Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kosovo and not Rwanda? "I don't think you can make a very simple matrix. You have to look at the immensity of what is happening. I happen to believe, and argued so at the time, we should have done more in Rwanda. We get involved where the crime is huge, where it's in a region that affects our stability--the stability of Europe is something that has been essential to the U.S. for the last 200 years--and where there is an organization capable of dealing with it. Just because you can't act everywhere doesn't mean...
...April 15, it was because of his antidepressants. A day before, Brandi Tinklenberg had turned down his invitation to the prom. Did these failures set him off? It's impossible to say. But five days later, he and Klebold started shooting. Fittingly, they had already computer-modeled their crime. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks Internet hate groups, discovered last week in its archives a copy of Harris' website with a version of the bloody shoot-'em-up video game Doom he had customized. In Harris' version there are two shooters, each with extra weapons and unlimited ammunition...
...calls his swanky law office "the house the Mob built." Its walls are decorated with newspaper stories about acquittals he won for alleged organized-crime figures. A toy rat lies dead in a trap near the fireplace, and a pair of steel balls given him by two reputed wiseguys hangs over the door. His name is Oscar Goodman, and he could be the next mayor of Las Vegas. As he tours Sin City on the campaign trail--gloating over its tacky exuberance, making love with it--I ride shotgun...
That was in Philadelphia, where Goodman grew up, and still defended clients. And on that Tuesday--just as he had promised--nine reputed members of a local crime family, including a Goodman client nicknamed Crazy Phil, beat a murder rap. Goodman had vowed to mark the moment by jumping nude into the fountain of the Four Seasons Hotel, but was stopped by hotel security. He put his clothes on and joined a party of hundreds of the defendants' friends feasting on champagne and hoagies...
...crime would have been horrible enough. But coming just eight days after the Littleton massacre, it was the centerpiece of a fevered week of copycat incidents at schools across the continent. Authorities rounded up scores of kids for allegedly plotting to blow up their schools, sneaking guns onto campus or threatening to off their enemies. Some schools hired guards; others canceled classes altogether. There is no telling exactly how many of these threats were serious. But it's clear that Littleton, at the very least, has given troubled and misguided kids a new way to garner attention. "Most kids aren...