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...IMMIGRATION SERVICE INS border watchers had serial-killer suspect, let him go. Should change name to OUTS

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...this any way to treat a serial killer? Marie Noe has confessed to suffocating eight of her infant children between 1949 and 1968, but last week a Philadelphia judge sentenced her to 20 years' probation, under a plea bargain. Noe will also undergo psychiatric treatment to help researchers understand why mothers kill their babies. Isn't this just a slap on the wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Justice? | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...most sinister visible feature is the tattooed snake that creeps up his left forearm. But the uncapturable horror of the alleged serial killer Rafael Resendez-Ramirez is his rage. Investigators shy away from discussing the "commonalities" among his victims--at least five of them, perhaps more, over the past seven months. But they obliquely refer to the way his victims are beaten to death by blunt instruments, which can include brutal blows by the killer's hands and feet. Says Mike Cox, spokesman for the department of public safety in Texas: "It takes a lot of rage to beat someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Rides the Rails | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...gossip press and hung up pictures of her in their rooms, were not social snobs. Like Princess Grace of Monaco, Diana was a celebrity royal. She was a movie star who never actually appeared in a movie; in a sense her whole life was a movie, a serial melodrama acted out in public, with every twist and turn of the plot reported to a world audience. Diana was astute enough to understand the power of television and the voracious British tabloid newspapers. And she consistently tried to use the mass media as a stage for projecting her image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess Diana | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Social life--It works well for serial monogamists (people who like long-term relationships), not well for people who like random hook-ups or casual dating. It's good for social butterfly types, because there are a lot of cool people to meet, but terrible for introverts, because there are very few opportunities to meet new people...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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