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...apparent pattern of the grisly murders -- the four women were all attractive, petite brunets with shoulder-length hair -- has touched off fears that a serial killer might be on the loose. Nearly 200 local, state and FBI investigators have poured into Gainesville to provide security and hunt for a suspect described by Police Chief Wayland Clifton as a "methodical maniac." Among the visiting sleuths: John Douglas, who helped track such serial killers as Charles Manson, New York's "Son of Sam" in the 1970s and Florida's own Ted Bundy, who was executed last year...
...hands on, and he put in a total of seven years pursuing courses in paleontology without earning a degree. He describes himself then as "driven" and says, "I didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered that his academic problem was not stupidity but dyslexia...
...Moor - in blackface in the 1960s. In old Hollywood, where nonwhites were nonstars, Caucasians often played Oriental roles. Marlon Brando kowtowed through The Teahouse of the August Moon; John Wayne did a Genghis Khan job on The Conqueror; no Chinese ever played Charlie Chan. As recently as 1984, Linda Hunt won an Oscar playing a half-Chinese man in The Year of Living Dangerously...
...asserts that he did not get his job through special connections, but rather through his own persistence. Near the end of the school year, Goodarzi called a number of professors, asking if they had interesting projects he could work on over the summer. Little did he know his job hunt would introduce him to the world of genetic mutants...
...even of this spring's. March is normally a sluggish month at the box office, but this year three films -- Pretty Woman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Hunt for Red October -- each pulled in summer-worthy figures of well over $100 million. Disney's Pretty Woman, an airhead Cinderella comedy that speaks to every man's dream of buying a beautiful woman and every woman's fantasy of a Rodeo Drive shopping spree, is near $160 million and still going strong. It stands a good chance of becoming the first film since Blazing Saddles...