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Perhaps I am being too sensitive. Perhaps in a future column, Frank will explain the moral difference between those who `simply' call for someone's murder and those who do the deed. Perhaps I don't see it Frank's way because I lead an Expository Writing study group on the life and career of John F. Kennedy '40--and so I know that in 1963 someone decided it would "be more prudent to nip his aspirations in the bud," too. But I don't think so. What I do think is that Frank's column is the ugliest violation...
...more grotesque the deed, the greater the killer's appeal. In the panoply of murderers, Long Island landscaper Joel Rifkin, who goes on trial this month for the death of 17 young women, is just a garden-variety killer. The man- eating Dahmer is the pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight...
...Washington and its rough handling of her husband, Nussbaum's wife Toby was relieved to see him leave the job. On Friday afternoon, tellingly, Clinton passed up two opportunities to defend Nussbaum in public. That evening he called his old friend into the Oval Office to discuss how the deed would be done. A reluctant Nussbaum agreed to go. His view, as a senior White House official put it, was "I'll be the lightning rod. I'll take the hits...
...Clintons included handling the sale of their parts of the Whitewater acreage. The story was denied by representatives of the firm, who had some logic on their side: Would they select a part-time college kid to deep-six something really damaging when they could have done the deed themselves? That flap followed in the wake of a Washington Post report that Hubbell was the subject of an internal investigation by his old firm into alleged overbilling of clients, including the RTC. Hubbell denied any wrongdoing, and was stoutly defended by Attorney General Janet Reno...
According to Richard Keeling, M.D., in his book AIDS on the College Campus, college students may be "sexually inactive in word but sexually active by deed." Students may deny sexual desire cognitively in the same moment that they are responding to it physically...