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...Keith Ablow: Why would a man who is good looking, who's married to a pretty woman, who's about to become a father, has no known history of violence and who's held down a job-why would such a person end up a killer, and in such a grotesque way? That's probably the primary reason that people were galvanized. I also think, however, that the notion of women being hurt during pregnancy is in this case. He's the most malignant version of something that I think affects many men, who come to my office [Albow...
...vampires are vulnerable to wooden stakes and sunlight, but modern television has come up with an even better weapon: cute high-school girls. Buffy the Vampire Slayer exterminated ghouls for seven seasons in the U.S., and now with the new series Blood+, Japanese TV has its own miniskirted demon killer, Saya, who speaks softly and carries a wicked samurai sword. This being anim?, however, she won't be hunting your classic Bram Stoker-style vampires, but rather vicious, blood-sucking anthropoids that devour humans whole. Right now, your inner 11-year-old should be getting really excited...
...entourage by bringing the First Lady, then noting to the audience that he had phoned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff from Air Force One. "I said, 'Are you working with the Governor?'" Bush recounted. "He said, 'You bet we are.'" But the President was not talking about the killer storm. He was talking about immigration, and the Governor was Arizona...
...slow. Everyone knew on Sunday morning that Katrina was a killer. Yet when the levees broke after the storm, the White House slouched toward action. And this from a leader who made his bones with 9/11. In a crisis he can act paradoxically, appearing--almost simultaneously--strong and weak, decisive and vacillating, Churchill and Chamberlain. This week he was more Chamberlain...
...native Belgium for what seems a routine job--offing a corrupt city official. It's the second part of the contract, belatedly revealed to him, that shatters his composure. He's supposed to kill a 12-year-old-girl. To Ledda she's an innocent, and it offends his killer's code to snuff her out. When he discovers that the child has been prostituted by her father and that her chief client is the son of a highly placed government official, Ledda switches sides. He was himself an abused child--it's the reason he chose to live outside...