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...suspects; police brought in the agent whose psychological sketch helped capture Thomas Lee Dillon, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to five sniper killings in southeastern Ohio. Franklin County's civilians have their own theories about who the shooter is--an angry loner, a reckless teenager, a bored aimless adult. What scares them most is the real possibility that it is one of them. --Reported by Kristin Kloberdanz and Chris Maag/Columbus
Almost without trying, Dartmouth quarterback Charlie Rittgers was able to find receivers in every nook and cranny on the field, no matter how tightly-guarded they were. Over and over again, the southpaw lofted seemingly-aimless third-down passes from deep in the backfield, and over and over again a Big Green player would somehow reel them in for a massive gain and a first down...
...have come at a better time. NASA was smacked around soundly last week when the long-awaited report on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia was released. Investigators blamed the tragedy, at least in part, on the agency's lack of a crisply defined focus--particularly its largely aimless program of human exploration. But launching interplanetary probes is something NASA has always done well. At the moment, Mars is making itself a decidedly tempting target, and humanity is taking advantage...
...Vatican, stalks him for more than 30 years, thwarting his vision of a heavenly kingdom on earth, though not his vision of heavenly sex. "We deserve the warmth of baths," the hero concludes in an Istanbul spa after a life of struggle. "May the days be aimless. Do not advance the action according to a plan." A satisfying formula for life, perhaps, but not for writing a book. So how - and why - did a gang of novelistic neophytes pull it all off? "We had a five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author...
...part of me deeply envies my classmates who, reading the Wall Street Journal with pens in hand, are poised to embrace it. I wish I were poised to embrace something. Under the heading “Living With Indecision,” the OCS’ guide reminds the aimless among us, “Keep in mind that you are not looking for the perfect lifetime job….There is no ‘wrong’ first job if you learn something from the experience...