"Oops! I think I killed it." That was Robert Chambers squeaking in falsetto as he twisted the head off a Barbie doll in a home video. He was partying with four girls in their underwear when he was caught on the home video in 1987.
Robert Chambers? The name sticks if you were in Boston back then. Chambers, a one-semester Boston University drop-out, was known as "the Preppie Killer," the handsome young man who in August 1986 left the strangled, half-naked body of 18-year old Jennifer Levin on the ground behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Here's a riddle: What happens when you get a curmudgeonly socialist and a snarly capitalist – two ideological polar opposites – each running for president of the United States in the nation's first primary contest? Answer: Victory for both.
Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders' 22-point victory over former Secretary of State and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, and Republican businessman Donald Trump's 19-point victory over Ohio governor John Kasich this past week in New Hampshire is puzzling to political pundits and pupils who have studied the 2016 presidential contest since its earliest days.
