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...results - a far from exact science - caused police to apparently eliminate Guandique as a suspect. He was sentenced in Feb. 2002 to 10 years in prison for his attacks on the two joggers; today he is an inmate at a federal prison in California. Years later, noting that the pattern of assaults and the fact that the attacks in Rock Creek Park stopped after the Salvadoran was jailed, one police profiler told the Washington Post: "Guandique stands out like a neon sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chandra Levy Case | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...faux pas, each concluding with the initialism-exclamation “FML”, and allowing readers to vote on who “deserved” it and whose life is really “f***ed.”The top anecdotes tend to follow a certain pattern: a brief recount of one of life’s little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that makes it just that much worse. For instance, one classic submission reads, “Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The Awkward Stage | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...peace is an atmosphere in which harmonious change can occur. Therefore, I am stressing the need to introduce innovative global conventions to exert balanced pressure on all stakeholders in a conflict zone. This would keep disturbances within the frame of humanity, just as gravity orchestrates droplets colliding without repeatable pattern into a waterfall...

Author: By Thrishantha nanayakkara | Title: Need for New Global Conventions | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...years, Presidents have used this image of omnipotence to mask a reality of inaction. The pattern got its start in the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon appointed the nation's first energy czar, a Coloradan named John Love. The arrival of the handsome Westerner was announced with appropriate czarist fanfare, and Love went right to work on a plan to reduce the amount of energy that Americans consumed. But he quickly realized that Nixon didn't really want Americans to consume less energy; he wanted people to think that he cared about the issue, even if he didn't. Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying No to a Car Czar: A Smart First Step on Detroit | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...toward other religions back to the Catholic Church. His desire to reunite the modern Roman Catholic Church with several more conservative factions, such as the Society of St. Pius X, of which Williamson is a member, along with his steadfast condemnation of birth control and homosexuality, reveals a troubling pattern of conservatism during his reign. While the reunification of the Catholic Church is a commendable goal, Pope Benedict XVI must be more prudent in his actions in the future. He needs to show good faith toward the global community and in the future should be far more thorough in picking...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Bishop Mishap | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

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