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What did Bosket do to deserve such barbarous treatment? Plenty. He was 15 when he shot to death two New York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat...
Last week John Mack, 35, gave in and quit as the top legislative aide to House Speaker Jim Wright. The furor had stemmed from the Washington Post's curiously timed recounting of Mack's savage knife and hammer assault on college student Pamela Small more than 15 years ago. After serving only 27 months in a county jail for the felony, he had been hired as a $9,000-a-year clerk by Wright, whose daughter was married to Mack's brother...
...back together. Mack was managing an import store when Small stopped in near closing time to buy window blinds for her first apartment. Mack led her to a storeroom, where he grabbed a hammer and without provocation smashed it into her skull five times. Picking up a steak knife, he stabbed her shoulder and chest near her heart and slit her throat. He dumped Small in her car and left her for dead. Then he took in a movie...
...happened in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union." He called the demonstrators "a black hand against the party and myself," and told Li and Yang that "we must take strict measures to deal with this movement, or there will be nationwide turmoil." Vowed Deng: "We must use a sharp knife to cut the flaxen threads...
...promontory overlooking a panorama of backcountry hills green as spring in the afternoon sun. A full silver beard spreads over his chest, almost obscuring the picture of a Thompson submachine gun on his red T shirt. THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN FREEDOM MACHINE, reads the legend. A bird-skinning knife is holstered parallel to his belt. Big John is an original road warrior, a man whose history stretches back to the beginning of time as bikers measure it: 20 years riding the Harley express across the country delivering a variety of drugs -- first methamphetamines (called crank by the bikers and speed...