Word: assassin
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...Carradine lent a pensive menace to the eponymous assassin in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. And when there were no good roles, he took bad ones; in his last years he graced such direct-to-nowhere films as Fall Down Dead, Homo Erectus and My Suicide. "It's a marathon," he said of acting. "You can't quit. Even coming in dead last has honor...
Steps away, thousands of protesters, including students from right-leaning private universities, marched in front of the presidential palace, carrying signs calling Colom an "assassin" and demanding his resignation. The competing protests are the most visible sign of a politically charged environment that has the potential to cause Colom to resign, Isaacs says. "This country has for so long been paralyzed by the pervasive violence and the potent mix of gangs and narcotraffickers," she says. "Now that paralysis has turned into rage. And if these demonstrations pick up momentum, they could have a snowball effect...
...arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries to destroy middle America. Palahniuk talked to TIME about the new novel, how he accidentally offended the entire nation of Germany and what he really thinks of the Cult. (Read TIME's 2002 article about Chuck Palahniuk...
...independence movement that isn't his?" Drago Hedl, a journalist for the Croatian newspaper Morning Paper who interviewed Rozsa in 1991 and 1992 several times, tells TIME. "And now I wonder, why would a man who writes poetry and wants to be an actor end up as an assassin...
...over an hour outside his target’s locked door, Gorman finally managed to shoot a bullet from his dart gun through the narrow gap between the door and the carpet, hitting his unsuspecting victim's foot and earning eternal glory. Now that’s a true assassin...