Word: butcher
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...remove his commitment ring before council meetings. He is sure that some of his colleagues and most of his constituents don't know he's gay. When he, Marsden and I first met, they asked me not to reveal Padgett's name in this article. Marsden kept a butcher knife next to his bed in the days after Shepard was killed, and he didn't want to live in fear again. "I don't know if the doors and windows and locks are strong enough for us to want to expose ourselves again," Marsden said...
...here he was, someone who had known her son--and had seen her tears--and he was hiding. "Let's do it," he told me, adding later, "Now that we've had five years to grieve, it's time to make some positive changes." What about the butcher knife? "I felt silly about that anyway, even at the time," says Marsden. Nonetheless, as I was leaving their house, Padgett told me, "Now I guess I'll figure out if I can really stay in Casper. I keep thinking about Caesar. Jacta alea est." The die is cast...
...claiming race, and Robin des Tune, at 13 to 1, leads by three lengths. The chestnut filly gallops past 8,000 empty seats and withstands a late charge by Halo's Gem, the favorite, to seal the win. In the once exclusive box seats, Constantine Kimos, a retired butcher surrounded by a dozen desolate rows, glances at his card. He had two bucks on Halo's Gem. "I lost," he says...
...being in the right place at the right time. The grandson of Mexican immigrants, he grew up working on the farms of California's Central Valley, far from the centers of power in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He got into local politics after training to be a butcher and showed a talent for the meet-and-greet part of the trade. Whenever Senator Dianne Feinstein flew into the valley, Bustamante was there to meet her and take her to appointments. He still counts her as a powerful friend. Bustamante entered the state legislature in 1993 and, largely because term...
...satire of Bush is only a shade less vicious. The title character of The Madness of George Dubya, a comedy in its sixth month on the West End, is another childish dimwit, who wears red cowboy pajamas and mangles the names of his enemies ("Saddama bin Laden"). Creator Justin Butcher says the play grew out of his outrage at the way Britain was "sleepwalking into war at the behest of the Administration in Washington." Unfortunately, the topical jokes soon give way to a long, obsessively detailed parody of Dr. Strangelove, with a mad general ordering a nuclear strike against...