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Birnes and Norris have divided the serial-killer life into seven phases of activity, a repeating cycle that begins with desire and ends with morose feelings -- aura, trolling, wooing, capture, murder, totem and depression. They kill to satisfy some inner psychological and sexual pressure, and they favor such killing methods as hanging, strangling or stabbing, which put them in intimate contact with their victim. "The only time serial murderers have control is when they kill," says Birnes. "That's why they keep totems." For instance: the body parts Dahmer put in his refrigerator, the victims' jewelry that Rifkin kept...
Bush has moved around below the radar of big media, turning down requests from news shows. "I don't mind being an oddball," he says. "I kind of enjoy it." His inner urgency to know everything has subsided. "I don't try to read the hot line that somebody sent me or the latest column. I mean, 'Who's up, who's down' -- I don't give a damn anymore." The flinty code of propriety that has always weighted him is in evidence. Only a few close friends know his doubts about Clinton's stewardship. They go to the nature...
...interview is over, the heaviness of memory lifts, and / Zlata's inner teenager slowly begins to emerge. As writer and company stroll up Fifth Avenue, Zlata, fixated on supermodels, eyes a new book by fashion photographer Arthur Elgort in a store window. Christy Turlington, her favorite supermodel of all, graces the cover. When there is talk of lunching at the Royalton hotel -- which houses New York's famously soigne publishing-world eatery, 44 -- Zlata asks, beaming, "Is that where the models are?" But her giddy, girlish mood is dampened when the French publishing liaison, assuming a Naomi Wolf-ish posture...
Many beyond the Disney inner circle harbor doubts about the idea of an honest history park. Can slavery, Civil War slaughter and the doleful fate of American Indians be blended with the traditional marvels of Disney entertainment that will also include Mickey, Minnie and the gang? "Serious fun," Disney chairman Michael Eisner calls it, and his experts rightly point to such a blend in Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. "This is not to be a Pollyanna view of America," insists Robert Weis, a principal Disney imagineer. "But we want people to leave the park feeling good about their country...
...deep seriousness of Watergate, but the handling of the questions still hanging over the strange little land deal in Arkansas 16 years ago has produced an outsize shadow of doubt over the Administration -- and prompted the resignation of a member of the President's and First Lady's inner circle...