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...brush opposite the school suggested that the sniper had lain in wait for his victim. Police also found a tarot "death" card with the message "Mister Policeman, I am God." The card, which may turn out to be a prank by someone familiar with the Vietnam War habit of leaving calling cards on the bodies of Viet Cong, was sent to the feds to be analyzed for fingerprints and DNA. The card, it would later be reported, also contained a request not to tell the media about its existence. "There is often an indignation on the part of serial killers...
...painting it onto the fingers and hands. The wax was then peeled off and treated with chemicals that react to gunpowder traces. If the chemicals turned up positive, you had your shooter--unless, of course, the chemicals were reacting with urine, bleach or fertilizer, which had a nasty habit of yielding identical results...
...much—we need to pick up an everyday left-fielder in the off-season. I don’t want to make this column a habit...
Since she was let go from her job as a producer for a San Francisco Web publisher, Jamie Delman, 43, dines mostly at home on canned chili. She can't travel to see a dear friend's new baby, nor can she continue her habit of treating friends to dinner and movies. "I spend a lot of time in cafes because coffee is cheap," she says. "I avoid talking to certain friends because I get tired of the questions like, 'Are you looking? Where have you looked?'" Delman has given up on re-entering the gutted tech field...
...billion pension fund (up from $56 billion when he took charge in 1993), he has more responsibility for investing pension money than anyone else in the country - and lately that is what has got him into trouble. The New York Post revealed late last month that McCall had a habit ofwriting letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund - and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci...