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Like all young moms in Wichita, Kans., in the late 1970s, Paula Rader had every reason to be afraid. A killer was on the loose. He was known as BTK--for "bind them, torture them, kill them," from a note sent to the local newspaper after he murdered four members of the Otero family in 1974. By 1979, when Paula's daughter Kerri was born and her son Brian was 4, BTK had killed three more female victims. But years later, BTK would send the cops a photocopy of a book cover with the adage "Never kill anyone you know...
...TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH FOR 34 years and can strongly identify with your article "Parents Behaving Badly" [Feb. 21]. It is so refreshing to read something from the teacher's point of view for a change. Most articles note the flaws in the education profession but seldom discuss, let alone blame, parents for any part in the problem. I am pleased that most of the parents I was actually able to reach were cooperative. I did, however, occasionally encounter a mom or dad who displayed a less than realistic view of the adolescent angel taking up space (and often little...
...Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than 70% of cases that are tried, according to figures provided by the Family Court of Australia to a 2003 parliamentary inquiry into custodial arrangements after separation. That mightn't sound like an outrageous imbalance, but it's important to note that only about 6% of cases make it that far - and they tend to be the atypical ones, involving accusations of drug addiction or abuse by one or both parties. Separating couples are free to work out their own parenting plan, which they're not obliged to register with the courts...
...know we can do it,” junior center Brian Cusworth said. “Winning this and pulling off a feat that hasn’t been done in 20 years would just be such a great way to finish this comeback year on a high note...
...innocuous note signed “with compliments” should have mentioned that in fact, Wiener has very few compliments for The Crimson. More accurately, Wiener excoriates The Crimson’s coverage of a 1988 campus controversy that erupted when several African-American students leveled charges of racial insensitivity against Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom...