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...when the theft took place, most of the Brink's-Allied security staff were caught off guard in the canteen. The fiasco nearly turned tragic a week later, when journalist Veronica Guerin, who had written a profile of the chief suspect, was wounded at her home by a gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals and say, `Whoa, they got away with it.' If the police make a mess of things, then the robbers look even better.'' SYDNEY: Public Private Lives Ever since former Australian Prime Minister...
...savings and pension accounts unless he pays a $6,850 fine and his share of the court costs. ASSASSINATED. BLANCA JEANETTE KAWAS FERNANDEZ, 48, fervent Honduran ecologist who antagonized peasants and developers alike in pressing for effective forest management and preservation of nature parks; by an unknown gunman; while she sat in her living room in Tela. Two days before she was killed, she had led a peaceful demonstration to protest the National Agrarian Institute's plan to distribute land to campesinos who, she claimed, would sell it to foreign investors. Police are focusing their investigation on two peasant groups...
...would have been no generalistic words that were simply nasty to say (leaving out race-based slurs, of course). With a few words, a matter of control got turned into a matter of gender, among a bunch of liberal idealists who work hard to find gender-neutral synonyms for "gunman...
...gunman who killed two people and wounded two others during a shooting spree in downtown Chapel Hill, N.C., yesterday, has been identified as Wendell Williamson, a University of North Carolina law student. Williamson's parents have said that their son was recently treated for mental illness, while fellow law students described their classmate as a disturbed man who talked to himself and had public outbursts...
...gunman opened fire with a high-powered rifle in the university town of Chapel Hill, N.C., about 2 p.m. today, ripping off as many as three dozen shots that killed two people and wounded a bystander who tackled him, as well as a female police officer. After hiding in a doorway for nearly an hour, he was shot by police, then tackled by a student who is a Marine, as he tried to reload. One of the dead apparently was a student who was trying to get away on a bicycle as the shooter made his way down a crowded...