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More than anything, the attempts at excitement in Urban Legend are frustratingly defeated for any thinking person. How does the lone serial killer move all the bodies to the same place without help and within the space of several frames? How much space is there in a car anyway to let you really swing an axe with any decent momentum behind...
However much Gephardt may be longing for order, his is an uphill fight. Democrats who feel that Clinton is a serial traitor to the party, shutting them out of his budget deals with Republicans, hanging them out to dry on difficult votes, bullying them into accepting tax hikes and then denouncing them for it, going over their heads at every opportunity, are not hastening to his rescue now. Californian Henry Waxman, a plausible candidate to support Clinton, summed up the mood: "He's an embarrassment to people in his own party. Even if it's not impeachable, no one wants...
...truth about Monica Lewinsky. Such ignorance in a very smart woman, they argue, is born of a mix of decision and denial: an unusual career--the brilliant Yale lawyer who gave up her work to make her husband better at his--and an unusual marriage, in which his serial infidelity was taken for granted by everyone except...
...proto-form of the motorcycle was simply a velocipede with a steam-engine jammed in it, made in France in 1868. The first true serial production bike, with which the Guggenheim show begins, was made in 1894 by the German firm of Hildebrand & Wolfmuller; its enormous engine--1,489 cc, the biggest that would be fitted to a production machine until the 1980s--chugged it along at 30 m.p.h. Motorcycle technology advanced so quickly under the spell of the fin-de-siecle obsession with heroic speed that only 13 years later, in 1907, the future aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss...
...shudder to think of these murderers as human beings, but they do share that distinction with the rest of us. What separates a serial rapist from the man in the office cubicle next to him? Society has tried to weed these people out with tougher prison sentences and sex-offender registry laws, but people are still dying horrible deaths and living brutalized lives. Only those convicted show up on the government's radar screen. The rest go undetected...