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...women called the cops in the early-morning hours of May 27 and reported that they found the youth, naked and bleeding, being chased by Dahmer. Laurie Eggert, a police- union lawyer, said the three officers who responded found the boy highly intoxicated and attributed the bleeding to a scrape on the leg. Dahmer convinced the officers that the boy was his 19-year-old lover and that they had quarreled. When the officers returned the youth to Dahmer's apartment, says Eggert, they saw nothing unusual...
Throughout much of his life, there were warning signs that something was terribly wrong with Jeffrey Dahmer. His stepmother, Shari Dahmer, who was interviewed last week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer before clamming up to the press, said that "when he was young, he liked to use acid to scrape the meat off dead animals." At 18, Jeffrey witnessed the bitter divorce of his parents and lived with his mother in Bath Township, Ohio. But one day, said Shari Dahmer, his mother disappeared with his younger brother, leaving Jeffrey with nothing. Often Dahmer attempted to sedate himself with alcohol...
Slowly, the east is beginning to look much like the west. Colorful storefronts and advertisements have covered some of the east's shabbiness. VWs outnumber spluttering Trabants. Blackened buildings are disappearing behind scaffolding as workers scrape away a half-century of grime. The air is cleaner...
...something different out of next to nothing. These fine artists must also be slick salesmen. They scrounge for five, six, seven years to get funding -- because it's harder to raise money for a $90,000 no-star feature than it is for a $90 million Schwarzenepic -- and then scrape at the doors of independent distributors. They should win an Irving Thalberg award just for persistence...
...will be the much touted Viper sports car (price: $50,000), due by December. Next will come a new Jeep in January and a line of sleek, mid-size sedans, code-named LH, in the summer of 1992. Such offerings have persuaded some experts that the company will scrape through its latest crisis. Says John Casesa, who follows the company for the securities firm Wertheim Schroder & Co. in Manhattan: "I think Chrysler's going to make...