Word: seriality
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...chance to see who came and went that crucial week. By not pressing Condit to tell them everything he knew about Chandra, they may have lost the chance to follow leads while they were fresh. Condit's side kept trying to steer reporters to a theory of a serial killer (several young women have disappeared from around Dupont Circle). Police have looked for similarities in the death of a government attorney named Joyce Chiang, 28, who was missing for three months before she turned up dead. They found the cases "unrelated." California Congressman Howard Berman, for whom Chiang once worked...
...Could serial murder be another cultural import, a virus floated in on the shared ether? Only if one assumes that it wasn't dormant in the community all along. In 1980 a Gallaudet student stabbed another to death and threw him out an eighth-story dorm window; the incident is little remembered on campus today. This may be because it contradicts the classic (and largely accurate) deaf model for misfortune--that it emanates from the hearing world. Says the publicity office's Prickett: "Most of the stories that get passed around are about a deaf person being hurt by misunderstanding...
...found against the government. Another example, from 1987: Arizona v. Hicks. In that case, authorities, responding to reports of a shooting, entered an apartment without a warrant in pursuit of the shooter, saw some expensive stereo equipment while they were there, turned it around to get the serial numbers and found that it had been stolen. Scalia found the obtaining of the serial numbers to be an unconstitutional search; notice that once again it was a case involving the home...
...Liberal Democratic Party stalwart who had held the office captive for two decades. He ran a campaign of outrage against waste, fraud, the status quo, and the ldp's fruitless effort to end Japan's 10-year-long economic slump. The message was just right, and if nothing else, serial playboy Tanaka wasn't a bore. He won easily...
Then the scandal broke, and years of accumulated suspicions burst forth--about everything from Jackson's alleged serial philandering to whether his family was unfairly profiting from his deals with corporations. To many blacks, it appeared that his time was running out. "What's his future?" asks Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church. "That's a no-brainer. Jesse's through. On a scale of 1 to 10, his credibility is about...