Word: jonbenets
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Behind the heavy wooden furniture and between the shelves stacked with law books in the office of Alex Hunter, district attorney of Boulder, Colo., there are three familiar images: a bust of Abraham Lincoln, a sketch of John F. Kennedy--and a photograph of JonBenet Ramsey...
Last week Hunter sat at ease, that photograph behind his right shoulder, and in a rare interview acknowledged to TIME that he had received "thousands" of letters about JonBenet, many of them from people who are "very sad and angry" that the killer or killers of the six-year-old have not been brought to justice. "I know people want closure," he said, "but I'm not going to rush to satisfy that understandable desire...
Rush? More than nine months have passed since JonBenet's beaten and strangled corpse was found the day after Christmas; yet tabloid speculation about why Hunter hasn't brought charges in the case of the slain little queen of prepubescent beauty pageants hasn't let up. And being in a "rush" is one charge no one would lodge against District Attorney Hunter...
...contrary, furious feuding between Hunter's office and the Boulder police seems to have brought the investigation to a halt. Frustrated members of the Boulder police department insinuate that Hunter has been sitting on the case because he is pals with lawyers for JonBenet's parents, who remain the chief suspects. A police source goes so far as to contend that "the Ramsey attorneys are making the calls, telling us [presumably through Hunter's office] what we can do and when we can do it." Hunter's many defenders--he is so popular that he has been elected to seven...
...makes the New York Times both the most invaluable and, at times, the most infuriating newspaper in the country. On the one hand, it's a rock of restrained, sober-minded news judgment in a media world that flies into paroxysms of excess every time an O.J. Simpson or JonBenet Ramsey comes along. Yet that same sobriety can make the paper seem stuffy and arthritic, more comfortable explicating the terms of a treaty on land mines than grappling with the latest pop-culture eruption. The Times is easily the best, most important newspaper in the country, authoritative and unfailingly serious...