1.   There was something arresting about him, a masculine potency that leapt the physical chasm that separated them from him with alarming ease.

2.   Another blackmailer was arrested about the same time as the two men in Halle.

3.   Branko Jelen, a Yugoslav staff member, was arrested about a week later in Belgrade.

4.   Bulger left town just as he was about to be arrested on federal charges and has been a fugitive since.

5.   Davis, who lived in a duplex next door to the family, was arrested about an hour later.

6.   Furthermore, Lerner claims that the police arrested only about a quarter of his group and were unaware of the remainder.

7.   Geraldine Scott, an unemployed railroad clerk, said she was about to be arrested for writing bad checks when she turned to the Defenders Service.

8.   McVeigh, who was arrested only about an hour after the bombing, was stopped for not having license tags on the yellow Mercury he was driving.

9.   Police would be required to ask anyone they arrest about their citizenship and immigration status.

10.   Rather than the gibber and squeak of the dead, what is arresting about these stories is the deftness with which Ms. Lurie draws the reader into their dramas.