Word: roystering
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...that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during an arrest three months ago--for turnstile-hopping. That kind of "quality-of-life" crime has been the target of the mayor's law-enforcements strategy...
...brutally raped and beaten in broad daylight while walking in Central Park. While the young woman, now thankfully on the road to recovery, was in a coma, another woman, Evelyn Alvarez, was beaten to death while opening her dry-cleaning shop on Park Avenue. On June 14, John Royster was questioned regarding the Park Avenue attack and subsequently confessed to having been responsible for that attack, the Central Park incident, an additional attack in Yonkers on June 7 and a beating in uptown Manhattan on June...
...this issue for most of my life. I have been pro and con and both "with exceptions." But in the last couple of years I have come to a temporary conclusion: while vengeance is applicable to a discussion on capital punishment, empathy is not. When faced with a John Royster, the desire for vengeance is almost a given, while empathy is misplaced. If you are a decent person, you could never be in his situation; you will never walk that walk. There comes a time when we must acknowledge that some crimes rob their perpetrators of any humanity they...
...victim of a crime by "emulating his murderer." Well, perhaps not. But I do not believe that retribution--in the case of capital crimes, a sense of individual and communal vengeance--is a vice. I will feel no remorse when I hear the bell toll for John Royster...
...lean, incisive and full of certitude. His combativeness came out in a famously stormy dinner with the Journal's news staff in Washington in 1980, shortly before he won a Pulitzer Prize. But editorial writers' testy independence did not begin with Bartley: Phillips remembers Bartley's predecessor, Vermont Connecticut Royster, protesting, "I can't argue with ignorance," as he stormed out of his boss's office...