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...kind of fiend the Kansas legislature had in mind when it passed the Predator Act. His 1984 molestation conviction was his fifth in almost 30 years. The only sure way to make him stop molesting children, he has admitted, would be to kill him. "He's really a poster boy for pedophiles," says Wichita district attorney Nola Foulston. "Sometimes he was a carnival worker. He would ingratiate himself with single mothers by taking their children out for ice cream. The mothers would think, 'What a nice...
...battle could be the last hurrah for the spit-and-polish Araskog, 65, a lanky 6-ft. 2-in. Minnesotan of Swedish stock who still towers over the company he has led since 1979. During that time, he has sought to transform himself from a poster boy for overpaid executives to a self-styled champion of shareholder rights. Yet Araskog, who served the National Security Agency as an interrogator of Soviet defectors in the '50s, can't seem to help treating everyone from Hilton CEO Stephen Bollenbach to ITT shareholders as if they might really be agents of a subversive...
...poster boy for capital punishment--perhaps the most effective since Ted Bundy--McVeigh is causing so much discussion that "it's as if we have not had a death penalty until now," says Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, a nonprofit organization that represents capital defendants. Foes of the death penalty find this troubling, since McVeigh's case is so unusual, but they should be grateful to him for reopening a debate that was essentially over in America. Three-quarters of the public--along with the Congress, the President and the courts--is solidly in favor...
...blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil War President. Translation: "Thus always to tyrants...
DIED. ROSE MONROE, 77, the can-do poster gal of World War II who inspired America's female foot soldiers to join the work force; in Clarksville, Ind. A factory employee in the 1940s, Monroe literally embodied the character Rosie the Riveter, made famous by the song of the same name and the familiar J. Howard Miller poster. In a subsequent film for war bonds, she symbolized the era's patriotic working women...