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...partner and mentor, Sam Hicks, was shot dead while on duty. Reichert was not there when it happened. Three days later the suspect was picked up, and it was Reichert's job to ride with the man to the station in the back of a police car. Hicks's murder made him a more determined detective. Says Reichert: "You just don't want to give up until you make it right...
...muggy afternoon in Suginami, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Tokyo, and Keiichi Onizawa was strolling home from the train station. The 68-year-old journalist was alone on a quiet street sheltered by cherry trees along the Kanda River. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, then a loud voice: "You bastard!" Onizawa turned around to see two muscular young men rushing him. The shorter, stockier one swung an iron pipe at his head; Onizawa blocked it but the metal tore into his arm. A second blow ripped through his shirt and the flesh on his shoulder. For good measure, the taller...
...disdain. Survivors rarely talk about what happened to them because they're ashamed they couldn't defend themselves. "Men my age are afraid to walk home alone at night," confesses Jinsuke Kageyama, 54, a criminologist in Tokyo. "We call our wives to pick us up at the train station...
...stunning presidential score required the backing of average folk usually repelled by his unsavory opinions, Dalida Hamoudi began seeking out local mainstream voters so desperate that they turned to the National Front. Hamoudi is a French citizen of Algerian extraction who is director of programming at the local station Radio Beaucaire, where she also hosts her own show. She's still looking for someone to fess up. "As a body, nearly half the voters in Beaucaire voted for Le Pen, but no one will admit or explain it," she muses. Like Houari, Hamoudi says rising crime and ambient hostility...
When her husband came home with yet another shrink-wrapped computer game 18 months ago, Denise Dituri never suspected it would transform her into Lorelahna, the Druid of Dark Fury. This Sacramento, Calif., radio-station manager and mother of three had never been much of a fantasy buff. Dungeons and Dragons did not appeal. Lord of the Rings was just O.K. But somehow this game, EverQuest, was different. Soon Denise was playing 18 hours a week--and, paradoxically, spending more time with her family than ever. "The longest conversation in our house at dinner," she says, "is about what...