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...fourteen years, we've listened to the P.A. announcer boom "and playing at center, from centenary College, Robert Parish." And the fans would respond with their usual chant of "Chief." To a stranger in the Garden, it sounded like boos. But to the faithful, it was just a friendly cheer...
...most nonviolent people of all, "the kind who would find a spider in the bathroom and take it outside with a tissue," says crime writer Ann Rule, who turned her experience on a suicide- prevention hotline alongside fellow volunteer -- and serial killer -- Ted Bundy into the best-selling The Stranger Beside Me. "The more we learn about things that frighten us, the more we can ease our fears...
...these were solved and very few of them represented multiple or serial killers," notes Ressler, now a forensic consultant in Spotsylvania, Virginia. "Today we're running 25,000 homicides a year, and a significant number of those homicides are going unsolved. We're seeing a great increase in stranger killing and in many of these cases, the victims are falling to serial and multiple killers." Still, the notoriety these killers enjoy is out of proportion to their numbers. The FBI estimates there may only be dozens of serial killers operating in the U.S. Yet serial murder remains a peculiarly American...
Ironically, the South African Defense Force rolled into Bophuthatswana's capital, Mmabatho, this weekend amid welcoming cries of joy from the general populace where in previous years they were greeted with understandable resentment. Stranger things have happened. After all, who rallied in support of Mangope, taking over Mmabatho's airport as leverage for demands pressuring the South African government? Why, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...three of these elements: the starry Greek night, 48-track digital recording and for those laser disc connoisseurs, 14 camera angles worth of Yanni's flowing dark locks, sensuous mustache and penetrating eyes. Yanni could be Samson with his mane, Jesus with his prophetic utterances or that mysterious European stranger who woos single female travelers, only to turn out to be a con man. What he actually is simple: a sex symbol with a piano and orchestra. He's like Tom Selleck and Neil Diamond rolled up into one, which makes a potentially deadly combination...