Word: murdered
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...argue that, essentially, desperate disease requires a desperate cure. As the Unabomber manifesto put it, "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." In the Unabomber's mind, society was in desperate need of a brave and brazen savior who wouldn't let murder stand in his way. "Well, let me put it this way," Kaczynski says. "I don't know if violence is ever the best solution, but there are certain circumstances in which it may be the only solution...
Country like this could bring out anything in a man--ecstasy, murder, grace. I grow aware of this as I follow Yvon Chouinard along the rocks down an offshoot of the Snake River, in Wyoming's Jackson Hole, in the Grand Tetons. Chouinard, 60, the president and founder of Patagonia, the outdoor-clothing and -gear company based in Ventura, Calif., that seems more interested in protecting the environment than its profits, is about to teach me fly-fishing. Ahead of us, the quicksilver water burbles and shushes. Across the river, the cold mountains, patched with snowfields and dark bruises, poke...
First, the good news (and it's mostly good news): Crime rates continue to drop nationwide, with both murder and robbery rates now at their lowest levels since the late 1960s. The overall violent crime rate - the total number of assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...
...ironic that a piece ("Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride," Oct. 13) that accuses the BGLTSA of co-opting the silence of closeted people, moderately gay people and the poor Nike logo quotes a suicide note to suggest that queer visibility kills queers. Indeed, it isn't the threat of murder, disownment and discrimination in every walk of life that keeps people in the closet, the authors claim, but sexually explicit posters and publicly queer peers, making gays their own worst gaybashers...
...governor of Colorado considers appointing a special prosecutor to the murder investigation, people everywhere are shaking their heads in disbelief. What have the police been doing all this time? Nothing particularly productive, apparently, especially given that JonBenet?s immediate family is linked to some pretty damning evidence: a ransom note composed with paper and pen from the family house, which handwriting experts speculated might have been written by one of the parents, reported multiple disappearances of Mr. Ramsey on the night of the murder and the fact that the family was permitted to wander freely throughout the house, after...