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...victim called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) around 9 p.m. and reported that she had been touched inappropriately by a man on a bike while walking near Harvard Hall, according to HUPD spokesperson Steven. G. Catalano...
Wayland said he thinks Zedginidze was acquitted in court because there were “discrepancies” in the story told by the alleged victim, whose name was not made public because the case involved sexual assault...
...surely as a bullet rips through a victim's flesh ... it shatters the image of the man who pulls the trigger." Not bad, right? It could pass for Raymond Chandler, but that's actually a line from Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (for PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2; $49.99), a literate, atmospheric video game about a good cop with very bad luck who gets tangled up with a bloody underworld gang war and a really good-looking lady assassin. The mood is pure noir: rain-splashed puddles, black overcoats and soulful cello solos...
...couple of differences: the ?Black Angel? loser is a lover of the murder victim, and the woman avenger, Catherine (blond, charisma-challenged June Vincent), is his betrayed wife. When her schlub of a two-timing spouse is sent to jail for the murder of showgirl-vocalist Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), Catherine tracks down Mavis? ex, a part-time songwriter, full-time drunk named Martin Blair (Dan Duryea). ?I had to see you,? she implores, and he snaps, ?Why? Because I had a wife who needed killing. And you had a husband who took care...
...book?s intended victim was a wealthy tycoon, but the confluence of zany coincidences and logic lapses is the same. ?There?s a ?why? in this too big to go down on any report,? the book?s detective says. ?It seems to slip away each time you think you?ve got it pinned down.? In the baronial study, the girl, her lover (John Lund), the cop (William Demarest) and a few businessmen all wait for the witching hour. Then [SPOILER] a mysterious figure moves the minute hand on the grandfather clock ahead, and when that clock chimes 11 the girl...