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...homes--not unlike the crime-scene diagrams sketched by BTK and sent to the media. "His attention to detail was flawless," says ADT co-worker Mike Tavares. "Anyone who didn't know a thing about it could have installed the entire thing." But his strict adherence to the thick binder of company rules known as the "blue pages"--and his expectation that everyone would do the same--rankled some colleagues. Rader left ADT in 1989 after clashing with a manager who had a more flexible philosophy...
...support this sweeping thesis, Gaines, a former managing editor of TIME, PEOPLE and LIFE, braids the biographies of Bach and Frederick through alternating chapters, weaving in thick strands of musical analysis, German politics and cultural history. The result is an eloquent and fascinating study, highly debatable at points yet all the more stimulating for that...
Short interstitial bits complete the action, and show the sense of humor that accompanies the performance: in the first, a waiter asks customers whether they want the meat or vegetarian options, and a man with a thick Indian accent informs him: “I would like a wedgie, and my wife also would like a wedgie.” In another, a Simon Cowell-modeled judge evaluates three comedians performing to become “Indian Idol.” In the end, the one who would be winner is dismissed: “Sorry, you?...
...taken pictures of astonishing clarity, complementing the equally clear but long-distance images from both the Mars Global Surveyor and the European Mars Express orbiter. Just last week news leaked that Express had found what may be huge slabs of ice from a frozen sea buried under a thick layer of dust...
After Sept. 11th, I heard renewed demands that I would be better off at “home,” and that I should return there at once. The irony of it all was that most of the yells were almost indiscernible due to thick immigrant accents. From my perspective, I thought I was already home...