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...Patsy Ramsey are still a main focus of the investigation, but they are also becoming its highly publicized investigators. According to Haddon, the Ramseys' privately financed team involves upwards of 20 people, with four full-time private investigators and 10 forensics experts, including several handwriting analysts and a linguist. On Sunday, moreover, the Ramseys ran their fourth local newspaper ad appealing for help from the public. The ad noted that the killer "appears to be obsessed with techno-crime movies and phrases from them" and included quotes from Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed that the family says are similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HEART IN HER HAND | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

DEBORAH TANNEN Linguist and author, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LITTLE FREE ADVICE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Torres also taught college history, served as a German linguist for the U.S. Army Security Agency and worked as a regional editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine. He and his partner of 13 years, Don Schechter, 60 (a retired former employee of the National Security Agency), together helped raise two daughters from Schechter's marriage. Like many of those who wrote in, Torres doesn't view the issue of gay marriages as a complex philosophical puzzle; to him it's a life-and-death concern: "Now that my partner and I are approaching old age, I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: FOR BETTER OR WORSE? | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...formerly the FBI's chief hostage negotiator, who runs a security consulting firm. Without saying who had written them, Swanson turned over typed copies of two of Ted's handwritten letters. She asked Van Zandt to compare them with the manifesto. After studying them with a psychiatrist and a linguist, he found a 60% probability the same man had written both. Van Zandt also passed the material on to two specialists in communication. They put the likelihood at 80% to 90%. The first week of January Swanson brought in Anthony Bisceglie, a Washington attorney, who contacted the FBI. In February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Authority are treated by the Israelis like garbage," laments insurance agent Fathi Sirhan. The feeling is widespread that in the negotiations over expanding self-rule, Israel basically dictates the terms. "Every time Arafat meets with the Israelis, it's like he gets his instructions and that's it," says linguist Lily Feidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SICK TO DEATH OF PEACE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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