Word: strangerness
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...maybe a stranger...
...dance with a stranger...
Sometimes the news is far stranger than fiction. In what bears a striking resemblance to a setup for a bad joke, the New York Times reported Thursday that Maj. Gen. Larry Smith, the officer accused of harassing the Army's highest-ranking woman, Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, was poised last summer to be appointed deputy inspector general for the Army - in which capacity he would have investigated, among other personnel matters, charges of sexual harassment. Smith never got the job, because when news of his pending promotion reached Kennedy, she filed a formal complaint alleging that Smith groped...
Like an inquiry from the independent counsel or a Barbara Walters interview, the form includes questions that the average person wouldn't ask his best friend, let alone a stranger. Since the forms began going out last winter, hundreds of thousands of indignant citizens have flooded the bureau's Washington headquarters with messages of angry protest. In an age of computer hackers, cell-phone eavesdroppers, Internet "cookies" and surveillance satellites, much of the public lacks faith, it seems, in the bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed...
...does. And the story just gets stranger. Ten days earlier, at an Irvine office park, Ford's business partner, a gregarious 58-year-old named James Patrick Riley, had been shot in the face by a gunman wearing a ski mask. Riley survived. When police tracked the getaway car, its driver turned out to be an acquaintance of Ford's. "This conspiracy to commit murder was financially motivated," a prosecutor told reporters after searching Ford's home. Ford referred reporters to his lawyer, saying only, "It's just a crazy, crazy situation...