Word: goetze
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...inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned...
...look so bad," said the gunman to one of the four youths who had accosted him. "Here's another." With those chilling words, New York City's acclaimed "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz fired another shot at Darrell Cabey, 19. Goetz had already wounded the young man's three friends, who lay bleeding on the floor of the subway car. When he saw Cabey with no blood on him, he decided to shoot again. These details of the Dec. 22 incident were made public last week in a report written by police in Concord, N.H., where Goetz surrendered last New Year...
...January, after reading the report and watching a video-taped interview Goetz gave to Concord detectives, a New York grand jury decided not to indict him on the four attempted-murder charges sought by the Manhattan D.A. The jury charged Goetz only with illegal weapons possession. At week's end Troy Canty, one of Goetz's victims, decided to testify against the gunman, without immunity from prosecution. His testimony could constitute "new information," which would be grounds for resubmitting the case to a second grand jury...
...five of them are victims not just of one another but of the climate of violence that prevails below the streets of New York Goetz's victims, in addition, are the products of a system that has left them knowing few other was to make a living than jimmying open video games and mugging other people on the subway...
...other truism that has been applied in this ethical equation two wrongs don't make is an indictment, for attempted murder and a trial of Bernhard Goetz that is a fair as possible in a city where-violence is accepted even applauded, and possession of a handgun is illegal but shooting four other people, apparently...