Word: murdered
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...This was murder. It's very difficult for me and my children to see that there has been no resolution," said Stephanie Bernstein of Bethesda, Md., a mother of two whose husband--former U.S. Justice Department attorney Michael Bernstein--was killed...
...merely a nice motto for xenophobes, but also points, if you think about it, toward one of the deepest dynamics of human nature. A healthy character, in its raw state, is a nasty little fascist, equipped with an intolerant immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life forms and thinks such sympathy would be dangerous weakness, a breakdown of a society's natural defenses. In some ways, of course...
...childhood, therefore ...), then it does not deserve the name of evil. Which, the theologian replies, is nonsense: the person who did the deed may be a victim himself or may have merely been having a bad-hair day, as someone remarked in trying to figure out Susan Smith's murder of her children in a South Carolina lake. But the deed is, indelibly, evil...
...Woodham was charged with the murders of his mother and two classmates, his hometown went into deep mourning, stunned at the rampage. But was it just the work of one man? Last week a second tale wrapped itself around the first, to the greater dismay of Pearl. Six friends of Woodham's were arrested on Oct. 7 on murder-conspiracy charges. Two of the suspects, Donald Brooks II, 17, and Marshall ("Grant") Boyette Jr., 18, were accused of plotting to murder Brooks' father, a local fire fighter. The police gave no reasons for that subplot, and after his father pleaded...
...October 2 issue of The Crimson contains a story on Melanie Thernstrom's book about the Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven. In passing, the article repeats a charge made in a much earlier Crimson article, to the effect that as a reporter Thernstrom used her position as a (former) Harvard instructor to gain access to confidential information...