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...crime wave of some 48 years came to an end Dec. 31 with the passing of Donald E. Westlake, 75, who (under his own name and as Richard Stark) wrote some of the best-loved and most influential crime novels of the 20th century...
...before him, Westlake played both the light and dark sides of the street--alternating witty, ingenious capers with tales of breathtaking cold-bloodedness--and taught two generations of writers how to stylishly pull off one perfect crime after another. Like Parker, Westlake was the consummate...
...shiver even when we sit near the fire. We read about people walking away from mortgages they can afford to pay, just because everyone else is doing it and responsibility seems like a sucker's game. Retailers report that gun sales are up, because the Democrats are back and crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal and of course Bernie Madoff of the $50 billion swindle, because absent any effective sanction...
...legal. We recognize the need for this situation to be resolved a swiftly as possible, but haste is no substitute for legitimacy. Five of the past 10 Illinois governors have faced criminal charges, and 79 of the state’s elected officials have been convicted of a crime since 1972. Illinoisans have already seen more than their share of corrupt politicians, and at the very least they deserve representation that is not marred with controversy from the start...
...Turkey is the only country in the region with strong military and economic ties to Israel, which supplies Ankara with defense equipment estimated at $100 million annually. The two countries also have a long-established relationship of intelligence cooperation. So, though Erdogan lambasted Israel's Gaza attacks as a "crime against humanity," he also affirmed that long-term relations between the two countries would not suffer...