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William P. Homans Jr. '41, the well-known Boston civil rights attorney who last year defended the so-called Widener Library "slasher," died of various ailments Feb. 7 at a nursing home in Phoenix...
Womack, a former Widener employee who was nicknamed the "slasher," was convicted last February in Middlesex Superior Court on two of seven charges...
...Left) and kept at it until he was mature enough to imitate himself. Scream, which has won some unaccountably indulgent reviews, is like his self-reverential Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): an idiot-savant movie, knowing but not smart. For viewers who are not scholars of the slasher genre, the latest Craven will seem one more exercise in voyeuristic sadism, an excuse for the torturing of teens in tight sweaters. And that's exactly what this Scream dream...
...recent years, the HUPD has also investigated cases ranging from jewel thefts to the mutilation of library books. In the search for the "Widener slasher," police installed surveillance cameras in hollowed-out books...
...Harvard libraries have been the focus of other recent cases as well, including that of the "Widener slasher" which was cracked in part due to the assistance...