Word: serial
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Campion's new erotic thriller gives Lower Manhattan a sooty, abused tone that movies haven't often shown since the '70s. But it's appropriate for two characters inching their way toward moral blackout: Frannie (Meg Ryan), an English professor, and Molloy (Mark Ruffalo), a police detective on a serial-killer case. Both are drawn to dark spaces, where strange creatures crawl and sick excitement comes in all sorts of packages. Frannie has tiptoed down into one of those spaces - the basement of a seedy bar - and witnessed a sex act. The woman on the giving end is later decapitated...
...soft-spoken phone caller has awoken about a dozen female students this semester with lewd questions in hushed tones—prompting concerns that the so-called “serial whisperer” has returned...
This man was known as “the serial whisperer...
...Democratic contender, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, and he won nearly a third of Latinos and close to 20% of African Americans. He did far better among women than strategists on either side had expected in the wake of a late-breaking scandal over allegations that he had been a serial groper--the substance of which, though not the particulars, he confirmed with the acknowledgment that he had "behaved badly sometimes...
...sounds like a tough law, but hardly anyone gets charged under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. In fact, only one person is known to have been successfully prosecuted under the statute since Congress passed it in 1982 to shut down serial leakers like Philip Agee, a renegade ex--CIA operative who routinely unmasked spies in the 1970s. It is rarely invoked, in part because it was designed to stem not the epidemic of Washington security leaks but a specific and pernicious act: the deliberate revelation of a covert agent's identity...