Occupation: Writer Birth: October 5, 1949
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers..
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories.….
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard….
You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections..
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports..
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!.
How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal wit….
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve..
The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed..
You're just too poor to get rich..
A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the othe….
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about th….
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws..
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle….
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice..
Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened..
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break..
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing..
I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were..
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden..
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and se….