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...Bush confounds leftists because he is not a handwringer. The remarkable thing is that he can keep his equilibrium in the face of nonstop criticism from his opponents. Is it because the media are afraid that he really might be great - this straightforward, plainspoken man from Texas? Carroll Hoke Wichita, Kansas, U.S. Klein analyzed Bush's reliance on his gut reactions more than on tortured reasoning. I wonder how much that is true of us all. Is our reaction to Iraq a knee-jerk response to Bush himself rather than a mature reflection on that troubled country? I supported...
...became a code-compliance officer in Park City, the working-class Wichita suburb where he, Paula and one of BTK's victims lived. It seemed an ideal job for a lover of rules, and he held it until last week, when the city council fired him. "He'd come by and measure your grass, and if it was too long, he'd give you a warning and tell you, 'You got 10 days to mow it or get a fine,'" says James Reno, who lived a few doors down from the Raders. No permit for your garage sale? He would...
...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 life was a mask of sanity. His internal life was one of violent fantasies...
Experts suggest the murderer had a couple of reasons to resurface over the past year. Thirty years after the Otero killings, he may have wanted to remind everyone of his handiwork. Also, the local media were reporting on Beattie's forthcoming Nightmare in Wichita. "He couldn't stand somebody else writing his story," says psychologist Samuel Harrell, who consulted on the BTK case in the 1970s. "He's all ego." But he was not trying to get caught--he didn't think he could be caught. All the poems and puzzles he created over the years to taunt the police...
That made Wichita police all the more exultant when they announced on Feb. 26 that "BTK is arrested." But Harrell says the declaration was part of "such an orgy of self-congratulation and excessive publicity that I wonder if Rader can get a fair trial in this county." Rader's lawyers, who will not confirm reports that their client has confessed to all 10 killings, wonder the same thing. A change of venue "is one of the things we'll be looking at," says counsel Steve Osburn...