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...pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight in killers' eluding capture. (Indeed, it is a chilling emulation of Gacy's reaction to the film Silence of the Lambs: "When I see a movie like that, I'm rooting for the killer," he told his Chicago lawyer Greg Adamski.) "Our society is actively...
...replace the revenues by increasing the sales tax -- were rejected by the voters until last summer, when state Democrats, in an apparent act of political grandstanding, proposed to do away with education-funding property taxes without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers and the horror of others, Engler took them up on it, promising to find some way to make up the money. Until the vote last week affirmed his method, the possibility loomed that public education in Michigan, penniless, might screech to a halt -- along with Engler's political career...
...that we feel like we're at a play. The lack of background noise (no violins or "Jaws" sounds to screw with our feelings) is broken up only by a few funky songs from a "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show. And the violence, oh the violence--the horror, the horror...
...Name of the Father" at 12:45, 3:35, 6:20, 9 and 11:35. "Shadowlands" at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:20. "Schindler's List" at 12:30, 4:10, 7:50 and 11:20. "Rocky Horror" at 12:05 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights...
Needless, because, as Paul A. Allen, vice president and general counsel of Visa USA, points out, "There are always horror stories, but in reality, college students perform as well as or better than the credit card holding population at large." Roughly four percent of college-age cardholders default on their debt--about the same percentage as the cardholding population at large...