Word: seriality
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...psychiatrist who studied the darkest corners of the human mind; in Chicago. Freedman mapped the psyches of assassins, mass murderers and terrorists, hoping to understand the psychological causes of extreme violence. Appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to develop a profile of John F. Kennedy's assassins, Freedman also analyzed serial killer John Wayne Gacy in 1980, testifying for the defense in his trial. Gacy was later executed for the murder of 33 men and boys...
...Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with all-female stars that sets its drama on the home front, whereas Cold Case, Alias and Crossing Jordan star individual women in law-enforcement (read: guy-friendly) roles...
...Middle Australians, the battlers whose dreams and disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from...
...court's serial bungling help matters. Three times court personnel released privileged information, even posting the accuser's name on the court's website. A transcript of a closed hearing that offered details of her sex life--specifically that another man's semen was found on her body and in her underwear--was mistakenly e-mailed to news organizations. And last week a jury questionnaire that also contained the accuser's name as well as a list of 150 potential witnesses was inadvertently leaked. Karen Salaz, a spokeswoman for the Colorado courts, says she is haunted by the mistakes...
...SENTENCED. CHARLES SOBHRAJ, 60, to life in prison for the murder of an American tourist in 1975; in Kathmandu, Nepal. Also known as the "Serpent" and the "Bikini Killer," the half-Indian, half-Vietnamese Sobhraj is alleged to be one of Asia's deadliest serial killers, preying on Western backpackers on the hippie circuit in the 1970s. Brilliant, charming and fluent in seven languages, he taunted police with their inability to catch or keep him, breaking out of jail four times. He is accused of killing another backpacker in Nepal, as well as five more in Thailand, two in India...