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...pedophile; of abduction, rape and murder, after an eight-year investigation that sparked public outrage and prompted sweeping law-enforcement reforms, by a 12-member jury; in Arlon, Belgium. Paroled after serving time for rape in the '80s, Dutroux was found guilty of imprisoning six young girls in an underground chamber, murdering two of them and killing an accomplice. Dutroux, who faces life in prison, claimed to be the scapegoat for a pedophile ring with ties to the rich and powerful but failed to convince the jury...
...Santorum has) to maintain the Senate majority of the Republican Party, which skews antiabortion. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously suggested that "prudential" latitude might involve voting pro-choice because recriminalizing abortion would allow people to pretend they had solved the problem while merely pushing it underground...
...rounded up thousands of suspects. Members of the top-secret special-police unit known as the Red Berets, led by Lukovic (they pioneered ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian war, and some turned to peddling drugs), were accused of carrying out the hit. The unit was disbanded and Lukovic forced underground. The then chief prosecutor, Djordje Ostojic, told Time that the government was determined not only to punish the perpetrators but also to puncture conspiracy theories that had already begun to proliferate. The trial would bring "closure," he promised. So far, it hasn't. In the past six months, one witness...
...comixcenti alike. Several of the works have appeared elsewhere, such as the excerpt of Chester Brown's "Louis Riel," the 2003 biography of a 19th century rabble rouser, or the snippet of Charles Burns' inky teenage horror comedy "Black Hole." Other superstars have brand new work. Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist...
...Puzzle Palace, published in 1982, is still considered the classic account of the mysterious National Security Agency (NSA), which electronically snoops on friends and enemies overseas. His account of 9/11 and its aftermath is studded with new details, including some about the undisclosed location known as Site R, an underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001. Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R "is a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir." It is just 7 miles from Camp...