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...Theodore Robert Bundy, the nation's most notorious serial killer, was pronounced dead...
...year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Florida from 1973 to 1978, making Bundy one of the nation's most grotesquely prolific serial killers...
...succession of appellate courts ruled that Bundy was not mentally incompetent to stand trial, as he repeatedly claimed. In 1987 a federal judge called Bundy "the most competent serial killer in the country . . . a diabolical genius." His decade of imprisonment and endless appeals eventually cost Florida taxpayers more than $6 million...
...some of his policies, even the toughest appraisals will have to recognize successes that seemed impossible eight years ago. Reagan's four immediate predecessors presided over a frightening decline in presidential authority. Neither Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford nor Jimmy Carter could manage two full terms. Their serial failures left the presidency bordering on decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested the presidency's slide, he reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last...
...January Man is modestly, ingratiatingly, a movie of the latter sort. To be sure, it begins with a serial killer claiming a victim, and it ends with the guilty party being taken into custody. But the deductive process that normally leads to this conventionally ordained conclusion is perfunctory and even somewhat implausible. What interests writer John Patrick Shanley, who won an Academy Award last year for Moonstruck, is the infinite and usually inexplicable capacity of ordinary people to turn flaky without warning or change of expression. The prime example here is Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), a former New York City...