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...four months after George W. Bush’s victory over John F. Kerry, I thought I could take a breather from the insanity of elections. But there was the overstuffed envelope in my mailbox—my absentee ballot. Apparently I had overlooked local elections, and for some unknown and likely unintelligible reason, Los Angeles is having its mayoral election today. While my ignorance may not be surprising given that I am 3,000 miles from home, among my fellow Los Angelinos, I am unfortunately not alone...
...what experts, though perhaps not the rest of us, expect serial killers to seem. BTK "has done such monstrous crimes, so we want the guy to be a monster, drooling and with one eye in the middle of his forehead," says former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, author of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us. "But we look right through them because they fit in society well." If Rader is convicted, he would go down in the annals of crime as "an evil Walter Mitty," says Robert Beattie, author of the forthcoming BTK history Nightmare in Wichita. "His external...
...suitable for irrigation, extreme isolation in mountains and landlocked regions, an absence of energy resources such as coal, gas and oil, and other liabilities that have kept these areas outside of the mainstream of global economic growth. Countries ranging from Bolivia to Malawi to Afghanistan face challenges almost unknown in the rich world, challenges that are at first harrowing to contemplate, but on second thought encouraging in the sense that they also lend themselves to practical solutions...
Kaminsky’s clumsiness may have been spread campus-wide, but his identity was unknown until he e-mailed FM to ask for a digital copy of the picture. FM agreed to give it up—but only in exchange for the story behind the photo...
...resident of Cambridge stated that between 4 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 7:10 a.m., date unknown, unknown persons forced the rear door to 259 Hurley St., which is under renovation, and removed an air compressor, nail gun, and saw valued...