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...they are analyzing a rich trove of evidence from the scene, including shell casings and a possible fingerprint. But they say it's too early to draw a clear profile of the killer. Judge Lefkow and her husband were involved in hundreds of cases. Several of hers featured violent characters ranging from Mafia hit men to street thugs. Just last year an angry defendant ranted at her, "You can run, but you can't hide...
...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 life was a mask of sanity. His internal life was one of violent fantasies...
...about bringing democracy and freedom to the Middle East--a goal regarded by many as completely laudable but utterly unrealistic. The region has long been a card catalog of repressive, hereditary kleptocracies, held in place by exported oil and internal-security forces, and, since Sept. 11, a source of violent enmity toward the U.S. But as Bush's second term opened, he was blessed with rare opportunities to throw U.S. weight and prestige behind signs of reform. So Washington turned up the rhetoric about democracy to lean on longtime Middle East recalcitrants...
...strength of mind to defuse anything. So far, all George W. Bush has achieved is to create more terrorists by bombing Iraq and torturing detainees in military prisons. Bush may already have contingency plans for bombing Iran, an act that would further inflame the Middle East and foment violent anti-American feeling around the world. My hope is that a very strong, united Europe will provide a bulwark against American hegemony. If the U.S. doesn't stop throwing its weight around, the world will sooner or later lose patience and go elsewhere for the goods, services and diplomatic skills that...
...look over in disdain. I imagine my normally anti-violent self swiping the phone from the girl’s hand and smashing it on the floor of the Eliot dining hall, looking her straight in the eye to say, “Stop. Taking. Pictures...