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...Westerfield had immediately drawn the suspicion of investigators. Julie Mills, who works at his dry cleaner, says that while Westerfield was normally well dressed and smiling, he came in barefoot and long faced one day shortly after Danielle went missing. He asked to have a jacket and linens cleaned--rush service. "[Sometime] after he dropped them off, the police picked them up," says Mills. (Police officials have confirmed that blood was found on one of his jackets.) It was also learned that Westerfield belongs to a gambling club on a Native American reservation less than two miles from the place...
...armed radicals. Already, police and several investigators have been threatened. An attack on a police bus carrying 20 militants left one dead, and gunmen believed to be Sunni Muslims slaughtered 11 Shi'a worshippers at a mosque in Rawalpindi. The U.S., for its part, has ample reason not to rush the extradition of Pearl's murderers. Some in the Administration are worried that forcing the issue would be counterproductive, exacerbating anti-Americanism and offending nationalist sensibilities by suggesting Pakistan's legal system isn't up to the task. The resulting backlash, they fear, would cripple efforts to hunt down...
...Ruttledge is convinced that for himself a life by the lake is the most honest choice. The lakeside is not a paradise, but a place where people also live and work—where they manage to live their days in a comprehensible rhythm and not a passing rush...
...look back over my old columns, the faces, voices and stories all rush back to me with such vivid color and detail as if it were last week, or maybe even two weeks before that. I realize that to not share this wealth of experience with the world would be a crime. I have no choice. The time to pen my memoirs has come...
...don’t think I’ll ever be confused with an Adrenaline Junkie (wearing white socks with brown shoes is about the extent of my X-Treme sports life). However, the occasional speed rush is just what the doctor ordered when I begin to lose sight of my priorities. It is way too easy in these gray days (fellow sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder will understand) to obsess about minutiae that really doesn’t deserve that much attention. Expos essays and problem sets have their place—don’t get me wrong?...