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...happened in the basin...[where] the traffic pattern was not clearly defined or well-patrolled,” O’Leary said. “I don’t think the boats’ coaches are going to be blaming one another...
...indiscriminate shooting of strangers--and a twisted hunt for glory--has plenty of tragic precedent. But generalizations are hard to come by. Killers pick different victims and different M.O.s, depending on their motivation and mental state. In some cases, the victims fit some sort of pattern. Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, convicted of nine murders from 1977 to 1980, has said he was trying to start a race war by shooting African Americans and interracial couples. At the other end of the gory spectrum, notorious shooters like Texas tower sniper Charles Whitman initiate one uninterrupted orgy of violence--as opposed...
...first shooting that broke the killing pattern--flimsy as it was--came the next day in a parking lot in Spotsylvania County, Va. The shooter had deviated by about 70 miles from the epicenter of the other attacks, spurring speculation that he was rebelling against hypotheses that he must live in Montgomery County. The shooting also left the woman injured but alive. And it took place in front of another Michaels store. Desperate for a motive, police contacted Michaels headquarters in Texas for reports of disgruntled employees. But the return to a Michaels craft store may have been sheer coincidence...
Parker rowed during his undergraduate years at Penn, where he began a lifelong pattern of success in national and global competition...
...called the Bush administration’s policy toward Iraq a continuation of a “pattern of initial defiance toward international institutions and norms followed, under pressure, by reluctant and even grudging acquiescence...