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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hatchet. The murder weapons here are words. At fortysomething, Carl Streator has been a widower for 20 years. He is a recognizable Palahniuk character, the kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series about sudden infant death syndrome. Along the way he discovers a children's book containing a rhyme that can kill when the possessor reads it to anyone or even thinks it in his or her direction. Having memorized the fatal lines, Carl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Few Words to Die By | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

REVISIT YOUR CREDIT CARDS. Even nose-bleed rates have come down. Best deal: Pulaski Bank (800-980-2265) offers a Visa that charges annual interest of 5.5%. Pulaski also gives six months at no interest on transferred credit-card balances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can It Be Refi Time Again? | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...REVISIT YOUR CREDIT CARDS. Even nose-bleed rates have come down. Best deal: Pulaski Bank (800-980-2265) offers a Visa that charges annual interest of 5.5%. Pulaski also gives six months at no interest on transferred credit-card balances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is it Time to Refinance Again? | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...mainstream Israeli leader who still talks in these terms is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and even in his own Labor Party his views are considered somewhat eccentric.) The deteriorating situation on the ground may soon leave Washington and its allies with the choice of either letting the two sides bleed, or else contemplating the politically perilous notion of forcibly separating them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Storm Brewing in the Middle East | 5/28/2002 | See Source »

...wife, his sons and his 13-year-old grandson, Rajman. "They hit me on the head with a wooden stick," says Rajman. "One of them asked, 'Why are we beating the small one? Maybe we should get some medicine for his head.' But the woman said: 'No. Let it bleed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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