91.   Hobbes and his partner, the always likable John Goodman, think the killings are the work of a copycat.

92.   His killing is a senseless act, shattering for his family and ultimately self-defeating for those responsible.

93.   Honor killings are most common in poor, rural areas.

94.   Honor killings are not exclusively an Arab phenomenon.

95.   However, the police also said the killing may be part of an ongoing effort to embarrass and destabilize the government of President Boris Yeltsin.

96.   I believed -- as the argument still insists -- that our killings were in some overall sense merciful, and besides, they had spared me.

97.   If a contract killing is the only way out, then Gary F. Johnson might be the right person to contact.

98.   If investigators decide that the killing was premeditated, Mrs. Murphy could face first-degree murder charges.

99.   If the investigation shows that the killings were premeditated, Kissinger said the charges could be upgraded to first-degree murder.

100.   In its brutality and apparent randomness, her killing was the kind of homicide that had become an increasing rarity in New York City, with crime declining.