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...confessed pipe bomber's 3,000-mile cross-country crime spree, which injured six and dredged up painful memories of everything from anthrax to the Unabomber, ended last week with Helder's arrest on an empty stretch of Nevada interstate highway. By turning on the cell phone in his car and dispatching a series of letters to his family and a student newspaper, Helder had ensured his arrest. The knottier problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student...
...crimes, leaving his attorneys with a dwindling list of options for mounting a defense. Will they try an insanity plea? It's possible. It seems Helder knew what he was doing: he reportedly called his father and left notes for his roommate, tipping them off about his crime spree; he also sent a warning letter/manifesto to the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The question is whether he knew that what he was doing was wrong...
...time the firing had stopped at midday last Friday, 16 people lay murdered in a scene of carnage that was grimly reminiscent of the Columbine massacre that took 15 lives in April 1999. The killer was a former student who dressed all in black for his murderous spree; he moved methodically through the building, picking his victims off one by one. And in the end, with 12 teachers, two students, a school administrator and a policeman dead, he turned a pistol on himself...
...victims. Police were on the scene just a few minutes after he began, alerted by a phone call from the school custodian. As they approached the building, Steinhauser leaned out of a window and shot officer Andreas Gorski in the head, killing him instantly. Then the gunman resumed his spree, which ended only when a teacher shoved him into an empty classroom and locked the door. It was there that Steinhauser shot himself, but the 500 unused bullets police found make it clear that he was prepared to claim many more victims...
...Early on, one of Aitkenhead's London mates seems aghast that she would even pursue this project, this "Ecstasy shopping spree, disguised as a book." More optimistically, another friend hopes the book will provide a kind of "cultural prism." The Promised Land doesn't quite live up to that billing, but it does deliver a light, breezy narrative with some astute snapshots of international dope meccas, more than a few chuckles, and an ending that leaves the reader coming down like the end of a good, night-long buzz. (Too bad the manuscript didn't have a better editor...