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...period they're front-page news. They really rewrote forensic history. I think of myself these days as a really good friend to dead scientists. These guys were incredibly rewarding to me because they made such a difference and they were so forgotten - it's kind of a cautionary tale, actually. In our own narcissistic moments we can imagine that we're unforgettable, but there's not that many people that...
...glamour of the Shah's regime. Nearly every shop and office has a picture of the hawk-faced Shah and his beautiful Empress, Farah. My favorite is the one where the Empress wears an ermine robe, and a crown twice as big as any queen's in my fairy-tale books...
...took his time getting there. Hill, 37, spent more than a decade trying his hand at a variety of genres (a thriller in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, a children's tale, a 900-page fantasy novel) with no bites from publishers. "I began to think I might not be able to cut it as a novelist," he says. So he scaled back, and in 2005 a small British press released a collection of his short stories, the touching, terrifying 20th Century Ghosts. It was followed two years later by the best-selling Heart-Shaped Box, a novel about...
...Economy of Crime Criminologists will tell you, however, that the tale of CompStat is not the whole story. New York City's crime rate actually began to drop a couple of years before Giuliani became mayor. And rates began falling in cities without CompStat at about the same time - though not as rapidly as in New York. For while police were changing tactics, the criminals were shifting gears...
...women’s water polo, the Princeton Invitational was a tale of two completely opposite days. The two games played on Saturday, one against Iona and the other against Wagner, were back-and-forth throughout, with Harvard (6-1) coming away with two competitive wins...