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Still, the sniper spree, even if it has not created a new surge of gun-control legislation, may have temporarily slowed some of the gains that the gun lobby was making in Congress. House Republican leaders quietly delayed a vote on the N.R.A.'s top priority--legislation that would forbid local governments to sue gunmakers. But with well more than half the House signed on as co-sponsors, the bill is likely to return...
...unusual for serial killers to find partners. "In all the notorious serial or spree killings in the U.S., 20% or less are duos," says N.G. Berrill, a forensic psychiatrist who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "It's hard for them to find someone who shares the vision." But as a pair, the killers may have operated like one mind. "When we do see duos," Berrill says, the second person is "emotionally dominated by the person whose vision they're acting...
...murder spree that paralyzed some Washington suburbs for three weeks may have begun months earlier with a string of violent crimes stretching from Washington State to the Southeastern U.S. Police chiefs in Tacoma, Wash., and Baton Rouge, La., announced last week that the two men charged in the sniper shootings, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Malvo, 17, may be linked to other killings. These crimes, however, seem to have been committed at closer range than the Washington-area murders. Like the failed liquor-store robbery in Montgomery, Ala., that provided authorities with the case's first major break...
...these suspects? Photos of the men suspected to be at the heart of the terrifying killing spree that paralyzed the nation for weeks show a relaxed pair, smiling broadly, warmly at the camera. It?s hard to reconcile the image with what we know of the killer(s) heinous crimes: because of what they did, 10 families are forever without a loved one, and three families continue to pray for their wounded...
...Mainland, landed in Taiwan and grabbed hundreds of properties and buildings from the defeated Japanese. After being routed by Mao's troops in 1949, the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan and established its government in exile, setting the stage for what one local newspaper described as a "five-decade looting spree", in which the party found it difficult to distinguish between its own coffers and those of the state. Critics say elected KMT politicians flouted the law by selling government land to the party at bargain-basement prices, listing party-owned companies?implicitly understood to be backed by the government...