Word: mcdonald
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...money they fritter away. Gore has recruited a full-time staff of 200 mostly young aides (supplemented by about 800 part-timers from inside and outside government), who have torn into their job with remarkable zest. The atmosphere last week in their workshop, a second-story suite above a McDonald's restaurant, was reminiscent of a campaign headquarters days before election: young aides sat on the floor surrounded by piles of paper while phones rang constantly...
...several weeks, the Letterman crew has been taping "remotes" that will look little different from the taped bits familiar to fans of his old show. So far, Letterman has gone on a tour of the CBS Broadcast Center, manned a drive- up window at McDonald's and escorted Zsa Zsa Gabor through a New Jersey neighborhood in a segment titled "Do You Have a Question for Zsa Zsa?" (Letterman's postmortem: "Only one person asked her about slapping the cop. I thought that...
...possible motives. Terres spoke of being under psychiatric care a few years ago and admitted to fantasizing about killing people for more than a year. The tape made reference to several notorious mass murderers, including Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy. It also referred to a 1984 bloodbath at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California -- and police speculated that Terres' rampage might have been a copycat massacre. On tape, Terres stated, "Society screwed me, and now it's payback time." He may have been referring to the company that he claimed fired him in March, or to the 16- year...
...police continue to gather details about the disturbed and reclusive young man, those who survived Terres' perverse revenge are trying to resume their lives. Hauptmann returned to the same McDonald's the next day. "I had to go back," says the college sophomore. "My stomach was in knots, but it's still a public place...
President Clinton could not have known, of course, that the week he picked to talk about crime would be the week crime was what everyone was talking about. On Tuesday, there was the man in fatigues who shot up a McDonald's in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The same day in Kansas City, Missouri, a 15-year-old went to the movies with his mother -- and shot her as they watched the film. "I don't know why I did it," he said. On Thursday in Burlingame, California, a man walked into a real estate office, shot one broker and wounded another...