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RULED ELIGIBLE FOR TRIAL as an adult: JOHN LEE MALVO, 17, accused in the Washington-area sniper shootings; in a juvenile court in Fairfax, Va. The judge noted strong evidence that places Malvo at the scene of the shootings. The ruling qualifies Malvo for the death penalty...
...terrorists that struck our country in 2002 weren't recruits from international cells but the regular crazy homegrown kind: a sniper spending time with a kid who calls himself his stepson in the ickiest father-son bonding since Bill Wyman's son became his dad's ex-stepfather, and a college kid who was planting mailbox bombs in order to make a happy face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons...
...increasingly graphic, grisly prime-time franchises of CSI and Law & Order to the orange DANGER!-DANGER!-DANGER! graphics of Connie Chung Tonight and the rest of its cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first bead.) Some dozen-and-a-half cop shows dominated prime-time series TV, not counting the numerous cable crime series and a steady stream of increasingly popular reality shows like Forensic Files. The result was a feedback loop of fear in a society that was not experiencing...
...balcony [People, Dec. 2], it was appalling to see that Jackson did not remember that things can interfere with the best intentions. Would sudden heart failure or a fainting spell have left Jackson with time enough to put the baby in a safe place? What about a sniper's firing from a nearby roof? Even the unlikeliest possibilities are always heeded by mature parents. ODE LAFORGE Fontenilles, France...
...Police arrest two suspects in the Beltway sniper shootings, ending three weeks of terror in the Washington metro area...