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...that's the case, says Fitzgerald, then right after the hijackings, the mailer "would have become all of a sudden very mission-oriented, very focused and preoccupied." He might have begun self-medicating with antibiotics. After the letters were mailed, he would have become obsessed with reading the papers and watching TV, especially when the anthrax news broke. Another possible clue: the letters were mailed on Tuesdays in all three cases. That suggests this domestic terrorist had access to a lab only on weekends; he would then package the stuff on Monday and send it out the next...
...That is Fitzgerald's theory anyway, and with any luck the public will match this behavioral portrait with a real person. Or maybe someone will pick up instead on the mailer's writing style: 09 for September, rather than just 9; printing the number 1 with a distinctive foot and head; writing can not instead of can't; using block letters rather than upper and lower case...
...hopeful note Fitzgerald cautiously sounds is the suggestion that the perpetrator might be finished with his vendetta. He has proved his skill at making deadly bioweapons, and he's vented his anger at his targets. "He has accomplished," says Fitzgerald, "what he wanted to accomplish." If so, our latest national nightmare may be over. If not, the proof may already be in the mail...
...sitting in the White House. In this sense, the N.P. is nonpartisan, though it tilts toward the conservative (when someone wants to blow up your country, you naturally want to conserve it). Bill Clinton is a relic of another time, like the 1920s party boy F. Scott Fitzgerald stranded in the landscape of the Great Depression...
...Number of babies born to Cantor Fitzgerald widows on Sept...