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Dallas Observer Editor Julie Lyons goes in search of a young woman who survived one of the most horrific crimes in Dallas history and finds a still youthful woman with clear brown eyes who remembers nothing. Lyons finds all the survivors and two of the gunmen in the "bathtub shooting" -- five teenagers shoved into a bathtub with the water running and peppered with dozens of .45 caliber rounds. Because Lizzie Williams played dead, miraculously four of them survived. The crime was the emotional peak of a virtual war over the crack trade in South Dallas, now a fading memory.

A recent report by the U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General may energize an effort to bring top U.S. law enforcement officials to justice for the systematic sweep of hundreds of Arab and Muslim immigrants into detention after Sept.11, Chisun Lee reports in The Village Voice. Some of these former detainees are now suing U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and others for a host of civil rights violations. "In numerous cases, people not accused of any crime were locked down 23 hours a day, sometimes in solitary confinement, and shackled at the wrists, waist, and ankles when outside their cells," Lee writes. "Some detainees reported afterward that they had been slammed into walls, kicked, and subjected to petty torments like constant bright light during sleeping hours and deprivation of toilet paper and soap."

In its botched expansion, has the ACC "forsaken all it once stood for, selling out to football and TV?" Independent Weekly's Barry Jacobs looks at what the addition of Miami and Virginia Tech will do to the conference that was founded by football boosters but has always been known for its basketball power. "Here we were ... operating in a hostile takeover manner, with greed as the single manifestation of it, and nobody was telling anybody anything," William Friday, retired president of the University of North Carolina system and a leading advocate of athletic reform, tells Jacobs.