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...leading expert in the area, believes that men are more often responsible than women for killing offspring under 12 -- a contention borne out by state and local statistics. Durfee and other experts agree that the younger the victim, the greater the chance that his or her mother is the culprit, if only because mothers are still America's primary care givers during infancy. The Smith case is typical in that, says Dr. Randell Alexander, a child-abuse expert at the University of Iowa Medical School, "if you get a more elaborate cover-up, that's mainly a female domain...
Susan Smith's invention of a black culprit didn't work as well as she had hoped. Her own not-quite-right account of the kidnapping, and perhaps memories of the Stuart case, kept people from rejecting the possibility that the distraught mother was a suspect herself. And though she may not have thought about or cared how her self-serving concoctions would affect race relations around Union, South Carolina, the worst was avoided. Despite the police sketch of a black suspect that papered the area, feelings never boiled over and authorities weren't goaded into harassing the black community...
...culprit didn't just take one foosball--five foosballs were removed from the Quincy House table by a mysterious kleptomaniac. You might ask, "What can you do with a foosball except play foosball?" Perhaps someone with a lot of time to waste could tell you. The value of the balls is only about $15, so this theft constitutes the most petty of larcenies...
...outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
...said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...