Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite the rage today. The great success of The Godfather, Prizzi's Honor and now Family Business attest to the popularity of these people we wouldn't want as neighbors. An affair with a woman and plagiarized speeches may be enough to bring down presidential candidates but murder, burglary and treachery only increase our enjoyment of a film...
...wish they had sentenced him to death," said Irene Mosier, Kellie's mother. But Hagan was spared the death penalty: California does not allow * capital punishment unless a first-degree murder involves other circumstances as well. Hagan seemed unconcerned about his sentence. "One day I'll be back on the streets," he said, "and I'm gonna be hard, hard, hard -- one mean son of a bitch ready for action...
...Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted or fired," he declared. "Those who committed outrages should be either jailed...
Despite the high-court ban on the ceremony, police, fearful of provoking a riot, did not interfere. They did, however, arrest Pushpendra Singh, the youth who lit the pyre, and four other in-laws, charging them with murder. The maximum penalty: life in prison. Authorities were investigating whether the bride's in-laws, who by tradition would have been required to care for her the rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess...
...Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat, to be published next month (Random House; 288 pages; $17.95). She reported the story and remains unconvinced by defense arguments that McDuffie died of crash injuries. The balance of the book is a recollecting of her 16-year career as Miami's murder maven. "I have reported more than 5,000 violent deaths," she boasts. "Many of the corpses have had familiar faces: cops and killers, politicians and prostitutes, doctors and lawyers. Some were my friends...