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...Sept. 28, 1918, Corporal Freddie Stowers led a squad from Company C of the all-black 371st Infantry Regiment against a German unit dug into a hill in France. After a brief fight, the Germans appeared to surrender but suddenly blasted Stowers' men with machine-gun fire and mortar rounds, killing nearly half of Company C. Mortally wounded, Stowers, a 21-year-old South Carolina farmer, urged his men on to victory until he died. His commanding officer recommended Stowers for the Medal of Honor, but for 73 years he received no medal...
Watching the FBI's behavioral-science unit actually at work is a far cry from seeing it depicted in the current hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs. In the film, agent trainee Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, matches wits and quips with toothsome terror Hannibal ("the Cannibal") Lecter and chases down molting madman Buffalo Bill, right into his creepy lair. In real life, behavioral-science agents remain largely deskbound at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., hunkered down in a windowless converted bomb shelter 18 m (60 ft.) below ground. But the film is right on target...
That ability comes from experience. This year the unit, known more formally as the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, will assist law- enforcement officials on more than 1,000 cases. These are not typical assaults but the most savage, perverse or bizarre offenses, ranging from serial killings, rapes and child abductions to arson, bombings and product tampering. "We see the worst of the worst," says agent Kenneth Lanning...
...unit also draws on formal research. In the past decade it has interviewed scores of incarcerated sexual killers, serial rapists, sexual sadists and child molesters, analyzing and classifying their behavior so that future cases might be cracked more swiftly. Such research has led Lanning to conclude, for instance, that there are two distinct categories (and seven subtypes) of child molesters. "About 90% are what we call situational molesters," he says. "They have no real sexual preference for children and have relatively few victims apiece. They may turn to a youngster because an adult woman isn't available." The remaining...
...team of Widener librarians called The Crimson to settle a bet about whether The Ad was real. A friend said she saw The Ad next to someone's toilet in Winthrop House (with a caption I will refrain from mentioning here). Someone posted The Ad inside the Economics 10 Unit Test grading office...