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Bloggers have been blamed for lots of sins - but murder? On Feb. 3, 17-year-old Bryan Grove allegedly stabbed to death his girlfriend's mother in the bedroom of her suburban Denver home. Friends say that he and Tess Damm, 15, hated Linda Damm because of her drinking. Police found Damm's body, crammed into the trunk of a garaged car, when they arrested Bryan and Tess more than three weeks later, on Feb. 28, following an anonymous tip. Between the murder and the arrests, neighbors heard loud music from the house, saw teens coming and going...
...Bryan Grove wrote poetry on his MySpace blog. For example, at 7:39 on the morning of Feb. 1, he apparently posted this: "Every time I feel you wrapped in my arms, I feel nothing can go wrong, every time we hold each others hands, I feel everything is so right..." The next evening, the night before the murder, this appeared: "Knives take my breath away... trapped inside my wake, despair? no, just another day of lifeless." Police say that when Bryan offered to murder Tess's mother, Tess didn't believe him - replying, "Whatever," according to the arrest affidavit...
...According to police, she had apparently washed Bryan's bloody clothes and set fire to bloody sheets in the backyard. Meanwhile, on Bryan's home page, which featured tortured demons and flames, these words raged: "I am dark. My picture might not be menacing, but I do stand a good 6'1 tall and I am... HUGE..." On Feb. 19, there is this entry in Bryan's blog: "I did things that I shouldn't have, with my two hands, I just want to drink a barrel of cyanide, to make this pain go away...
...Dignity is one thing temps don't have in Japan, where a worker is often still judged by the quality of the corporation to which they've pledged their lifetime loyalty. (Indeed, Japanese will introduce themselves company name first: "I'm TIME's Bryan Walsh.") Haken - a serial drama that began airing in January and ends this month - is popular in part because it inverts the accepted rules of a Japanese office and satirizes the social divide between full-timers and lowly part-timers...
...hearings are immeasurably important,” he said. “They are an opportunity to educate members of congress, and are an important way to present the evidence.” Meehan has yet to find a counterpart in the Senate to introduce the legislation, according to Bryan DeAngelis, Meehan’s press secretary. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...