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Lately we have been seeing these pictures everywhere, practically a new one every day, and sometimes at the top of national newscasts that don't usually feature such stories so prominently. The press coverage cyclone kicked up months ago with the kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dam in San Diego, then gained in intensity with the still unsolved disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah and, incredibly, grew even fiercer with a series of cases from all over the country. So many shocking stories, so suddenly--a genuine crime wave or media hysteria...
...story of Adrian Monk--the protagonist of the hit detective show on the USA cable network--is not unlike the story of Monk the series. Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, is a brilliant detective with a few quirks: after his wife was murdered, he developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because...
...psychologist while researching his part. "We're loading this character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded him--is just a healthier manifestation of his malady: he needs to impose order on a world that inexorably tends toward entropy. Is that crazy? Not as crazy...
...were wholly dependent on the sanctuary and succor of states - and therefore acted primarily as proxies of their patron at the time. Like the PFLP-trained Venezuelan Carlos the Jackal, the Japanese Red Army and Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, Abu Nidal embarked on a career of mercenary mass murder in the early 1970s, eventually counting among his clients Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran and possibly others, and generally collecting between $1 million and $3 million per operation. And as the others fell by the wayside, he became, by the early 1980s, the prime suspect in any terror attack anywhere...
...rescued. Sometimes. Lately we have been seeing these pictures everywhere, practically a new one every day, and sometimes at the top of national newscasts that don't usually feature such stories so prominently. In the U.S. the press coverage cyclone kicked up months ago with the kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dam in San Diego, California, then gained intensity with the still unsolved disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah, and, incredibly, grew even fiercer with a series of cases from all over the country. The British parallels are Sarah Payne, who left a game of hide-and-seek with...