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Installing surveillance technology as the staff suggests would allow the government to keep detailed records of where individuals go—not only terrorists, but all Americans. Once the system is in place to find terrorists, who could oppose adding serial killers to its database? Why not escaped felons, or violators of parole? Who would support the right of petty thieves—or anyone with an outstanding arrest warrant—to walk the streets? After all, criminals on the lam have no right to be in stadiums, libraries or public parks, where cameras would no doubt be installed...
...Killer Serial, Hour by Hour
...know about you, I feel kind of cheap every time I consider this business as if it were a thrilling detective novel to be read during a summer thunderstorm because I don't know a single thing about the character of Gary Condit or about serial killings in the District or about the guy who works at Levy's health club or her landlord or the other people living in her apartment house...
...incident last week three generations - grandmother, mother, teenagers and young children - of the Merabet family were murdered at a holiday resort at Tipaza, west of Algiers. Authorities estimate that more than 1,300 people have been killed by the Armed Islamic Group since the start of the year. IRAN Serial Killer Over the past year 19 women, aged between 25 and 50, have been murdered in the holy city of Mashhad. The women, convicted prostitutes and drug users, were strangled with their headscarves and wrapped in chadors. As the authorities rounded up 500 known prostitutes, police - sent from Tehran...
Ghost World originated in Eightball, a serial comic book by Daniel Clowes, whose anatomizing of anomie--Pussey!, David Boring--has made him the R. Crumb of Generation Y. (The Ghost World title is graffiti Clowes saw on a wall in Chicago.) Enid and Rebecca first appeared in 1993. "The characters came to me spontaneously, fully formed, when I drew them in my sketchbook," says Clowes in his Oakland, Calif., home. "They felt like two parts of my personality. Enid is the id, dissatisfied with everything, not sure where she belongs; Rebecca is more pragmatic, trying to make the best...