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...American legal system is based largely on the principal of deterrence, and such an allowance hardly serves to deter potential criminals. In fact it rewards deranged criminals who commit crimes so monstrous that they both repulse the American public and appeal to a sick fascination with the horrific...
...performed an important, if carnivorous, role in the balance of the ethical ecosystem. Monsters, therefore, were created to teach lessons. And they can still be pedagogical -- even in an age that no longer believes in the gods or their messengers. Our misfortune is that monsters need not look monstrous. Hence, schoolboys in Africa. Hence, Jeffrey Dahmer in Milwaukee, who, with his strong cheekbones and broad shoulders, is not some finny Creature from the Black Lagoon...
Then there are the financial realities of modern journalism. Monstrous as the Moscow extravaganza was -- the TV networks couldn't resist sending their anchors, and CBS dispatched seven camera crews -- many news executives have concluded that they can no longer afford saturation coverage of all presidential trips. (The overall cost of just the press centers in Moscow and Kiev was $250,000.) The Associated Press sent 11 staff members on the trip, a third less than the number that covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit...
Everywhere the same wrenching question arose. How could regulators in the U.S., Britain and other countries have allowed B.C.C.I. to develop into a monstrous criminal enterprise whose activities ranged from laundering drug money to financing clandestine arms sales? Authorities seemed content for years to ignore mounting evidence, provided by private audits and former B.C.C.I. officers, of the bank's misdeeds. According to leaked audit reports, B.C.C.I. used deposits to enrich many of its Arab investors -- and then covered up the fraudulent transactions. The bank also cultivated a global network of political contacts to help keep regulators at bay. The heavy...
...office down the hall, or their friend's brother. The familiarity is enough to make them let down their guard, sometimes even enough to make them wonder afterward whether they were "really raped." What people think of as "real rape" -- the assault by a monstrous stranger lurking in the shadows -- accounts for only 1 out of 5 attacks...