Word: assassination
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...hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon—a sweet family man devoted to his beautiful wife and young son—into Reeves’ assassin...
...sexual nightmare that was reading-list favorite, the 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is somewhat of a return to her roots after a series of well-received realist novels, including Cat’s Eye and the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin...
...over to surround him while he toweled off and dressed, and then they climbed into the backseat of our car beside him. We were told to switch on the air-conditioner so the windows would turn opaque with steam as he explained why he had chosen to live an assassin's life. "It's not a hobby to kill, you know," said Mohammed, which, of course, was not his real name. "When we attack, the voice of the Palestinians is heard. We are sending a message to say, 'We are here.' If we stop, no one will care about...
Watch Torrance, Calif.’s own Samoan Assassin, junior Coesen Ngwun—a “beast of a man,” according to fellow defensive tackle and blockmate Matt McBurney—as he works in his office...
...tricky, the transition from child star to full-on femme. But NATALIE PORTMAN seems to be managing. Forget the 9-year-old assassin-in-training from The Professional and the teen Queen Amidala in The Phantom Menace. The new Natalie, 22, is playing a full-fledged adult in the epic Cold Mountain and in the upcoming film Closer, which is about relationships and sex. She's acting like an adult in real life too, with a brand-new Harvard degree, a deed on a house and the cover of next month's Vogue. Then again, Natalie sports a flapper-girl...