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...victim. This promptly inspires a game of Spin the Bottle, where the bottle is an empty 40 of Bud, and the background music is the Led Zeppelin boxed set. After a number of spins, Tad is called into the game. He eagerly steps up, hands his camera to a stranger and wins an extensive kiss from Evie Stone. I fail to realize the next turn is mine. Claiming journalistic immunity and sinking deeper into the couch, I try to work my way out of it, but my friend Emily Lin starts the room chanting "Lisa, Lisa, Lisa...
...children. It may seem silly to go after a kid whose only crime is manicuring during school hours. But how do you know whom to treat sympathetically at a time when 11-year-olds commit murder? (Now 13, Nathaniel Abraham was convicted last month in Michigan of shooting a stranger in the head.) And how do you decide which kids are just morose and creative--and which ones are plotting to kill...
Even more unsettling was the twist the case took last week, when prosecutors charged two white teenagers with the murder and said they had targeted Richardson, a stranger to them, because he was black. The Elkhart Truth reported that one suspect, Jason Powell, 19, had told friends he needed to kill a black person to earn a badge of honor in the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-supremacist gang he hoped to join. An Elkhart city councilman, Arvis Dawson, told TIME he had confirmed that report in conversations with police and prosecutors. Neither Powell nor his co-defendant, Alex Witmer...
Other violent crimes are dropping too. Rapes, especially, have dropped dramatically--reported instances are down 41percent. "Stranger rapes," like last Monday's, are anomalies, according to the report--most Cambridge rape victims know their attackers...
Last Monday's assault was the third "stranger rape" recorded in the city this year. There have been six incidences of "acquaintance rapes"--assaults where the victim knew the attacker...