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...experts hope to complete a psychological profile of the typical snatch- and-slay perpetrator next year. In the one recent case where the murderer was caught, however -- the killing of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California, by Richard Allen Davis, 39 -- there was less interest in Davis' psyche than in his rap sheet. First booked at age 12 for stealing checks, he escaped charges in the shotgun death of a girlfriend seven years later but served a total of eight years for a burglary and two assaults on other women, one involving kidnapping. Free again...
...Carlos Rodriguez the battle was a few seconds of terror, hours of agonized waiting. While his comrades stormed the building near the Olympic Hotel in Mogadishu to try to snatch Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, Rodriguez and the rest of his squad swarmed down ropes from a helicopter and began a security patrol through a nearby street. "It was bright daylight; there were windows and doors all around us, and you can't watch all of them all the time," said Rodriguez. "All of a sudden the Somalis just opened up on us, small arms and grenades. There was shooting...
...stopped there, I would never have found it worthy of anything more than a snicker in the dining hall. But as anyone who lives among the prodigious effluence of postered proclamations well knows, that is not the case. We are daily confronted with hundreds of insipid verbal schemes to snatch our attention, which, though they are sometimes amusing at first glance, soon become intolerably irritating...
...That snatch of conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people...
...Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...