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Although police disclosed last week that Blake had been their prime suspect from the beginning, they spent 11 months investigating and traveled to 20 states across the U.S. to avoid being accused of failing to examine other potential suspects, as happened to the O.J. prosecutors. Los Angeles police say they have recovered the murder weapon, a World War II-era German handgun found in a trash can close to the murder scene. Last week L.A.P.D. Captain Jim Tatreau said flatly that "Robert Blake shot Bonny Bakley." Police believe the motive was Blake's unhappiness with his marriage...
...people talk earnestly over expensive salads. Kaufman, not Hollywood handsome, not tan, half eating a burger, would like more iced tea, please. But the waiter just doesn't see him. It could be his paleness. It's more likely his ability to disappear, forged from years of trying to avoid getting beaten up in high school. Or it could be that here, as elsewhere in this town, nobody really gives a toss about screenwriters...
...smugglers will slip you through the checkpoints on the roads to major Pakistani cities. "These al-Qaeda are willing to pay a lot more?and in dollars," one tribal shopkeeper marvels. But even shorn of his beard and sporting Western gear, it will be hard for bin Laden to avoid detection if he is hiding in Pakistan?now that the ISI has joined the chase...
...frank discussion of sexual morality, celibacy, women priests or homosexuality, it's not likely to happen anytime soon. The usual diversions designed to avoid these subjects were thrown about with abandon. This is a purely American problem, some church spokesmen argued, as if scandals weren't exploding elsewhere: an ABC News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is - but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect...
...meted out to "a priest who has become notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory, sexual abuse of minors." Excuse me? Why on earth is the "notoriety" of a child abuser in any way relevant to punishment for his crime (except as an excuse for the church to avoid sifting through past allegations that remain unpublicized)? Then there were these loopholes: the abuse also had to be "serial" and "predatory." Occasional or one-off child-abuse violations could perhaps be forgiven. And even serial abuse might be overlooked if it had not been "predatory." A simple question...