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...just finished admonishing her husband not to fall for the bump-and- rob ploy when the yellow Ryder truck rammed them twice from behind. Keep driving, she told him. But none of it did any good. Ever since Hurricane Andrew lumbered through the area last year and ripped all the lightposts from the Dolphin Expressway, the section of road where the Rakebrands found themselves at 12:30 a.m. has been tar black at night. And perhaps it was this inky cover that encouraged a frustrated teenager to pull out a sawed-off rifle and blast a .30-cal. slug through...
...Fennelly said a burglar caught stealing wallets at a boathouse last spring told police it has been much harder for him to rob dorms since the key cards were installed. "I don't want to give a false sense of security," Fennelly said. "But the cards are the only factor that changes in the environment. It's a good way to control security into the buildings...
...allegations also speak to the modern preoccupation with child abuse. In an age when lurid lyrics, sniggering sitcoms and trash-talking stars work hard to rob children of innocence, the sexually abusive parent, guardian or family friend is not only a predator in his own right but also a stand-in for all the gaudy malevolence of pop culture. "There's a social hysteria about child abuse," says Professor Melvin Guyer, a psychologist and lawyer who teaches at the University of Michigan. "It began with the McMartin Pre-School case and continued with Woody Allen. There has been a feeding...
Letterman's standards and sense of propriety are apparent as well in his choice of material. Writers say he often rejects jokes that stray too close to tragic news events or real-life misfortune. Rob Burnett recalls Letterman turned down a gag for a segment called Charts and Graphs -- "Dyslexics' Favorite Beatles," featuring names like ULAP and OGNRI; the host said it made fun of a serious disability. Comedian Jeff Altman, another Letterman pal from the Comedy Store days, remembers a guest appearance on Late Night in which he made a lewd crack that included the word "genitals." Letterman didn...
...scrutiny. With six-year-old Castle Rock, Turner is getting no library of movies; the company controls the TV rights to none of its films. Three of Castle Rock's five hits -- When Harry Met Sally, , Misery and A Few Good Men -- were directed by company co-founder Rob Reiner, which means that for $160 million or so Turner is mainly getting the brainpower of Reiner -- yet only, perhaps, until he and partner Alan Horn have a falling-out with their new boss and walk away...