Word: sprees
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...surge to a quick 6-1 lead in the second game. A kill by Holy Cross's Carissa Bennett forced a sideout, and the Crusaders inched back to within 6-3. The potent Crimson offense, however, could not be stopped, and after Harvard enjoyed an 8-1 scoring spree, an ace by Hart forced game point. A block from Denniston and Gallagher won the game for the Crimson...
...case in point is last year's crime spree in Harvard Yard, when the so-called "Yard Burglar" robbed dorm rooms in Matthews Hall. Despite warnings from HUPD, many Matthews residents left their doors unlocked, and the crime spree continued...
...pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only a matter of time" Dees argues, "before the unfit, untrained, unsupervised members of the security force attacked someone they thought was the 'enemy' in the 'war' with the Jews...
Crime is the one thing Japan was always happy to admit was best made in America. But a teen killing spree is starting to give the lie to the idea that Japan is preternaturally immune from violence. Last week a 15-year-old boy on southern Japan's Kyushu Island slipped into a neighbor's house after dark and attacked six slumbering family members with a knife one by one, killing three. "Oh, no, not again," said Mikiko Takahashi, 46, the mother of two boys. "Our society must be out of order...
...contact with the outside world, often for years, into adulthood. "I didn't want anyone to see me, and I didn't want to see anyone," says a hikikomori, 23, who finally came out of his reclusive world a year ago. Some of those accused in the crime spree--including the bus hijacker and a man who kidnapped a girl and held her captive for 10 years--have been identified as hikikomori. Experts estimate that there are 50,000 to 1 million hikikomori. Fear of them has suffused the headlines. In a bizarre twist two months ago, a father...