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DANNY BOYER Mill Valley, Calif...
...again, this was no run-of-the-mill matchup. This was a first-round NCAA tournament match featuring the nationally ranked Crimson—a team that had just won the ECAC championship...
...shirt changes by the hour and can vary by its size and even color. Rivoli doesn't allow the charts and capsules of economic history to drain the book of its color. It is full of memorable characters and vivid scenes, like the "sensory assault" of a textile mill--deafening noise, suffocating air and the "musty-sweet smell of the cotton," she says. "Here in the factory, Shanghai smells like Shallowater, Texas...
...description Bright later gave police--average-size guy, bushy mustache, "psychotic" eyes--led to nothing at first. And BTK was cocky enough to think he could get away with it. Run-of-the-mill criminals don't become pen pals with the press and the police. But BTK became a murderer-correspondent in the mold of Jack the Ripper and California's Zodiac Killer, who was still at large when BTK started his spree. In 1978, apparently frustrated by a lack of media attention, BTK wrote to a local TV station, asking, "How many do I have to kill before...
...social norms—not because the people have been persuaded otherwise, but because a culture exists that makes those views socially taboo. This creates an atmosphere where people will disengage from important debates because they feel intimidated to voice their opinions. To borrow from John Stuart Mill, the only way for an idea to prove its worth is for it to be challenged within an open marketplace of ideas. In such a marketplace, any idea, regardless of how abhorrent we might find it, should be presented and allowed to compete...