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...uncle Robert and Robert's Japanese wife, Lady Murasaki. They are sweet to the boy, who is intoxicated by Lady M's silks and fragrances, and her tutorial interest in him, and her impressive sword collection. (He always loved cutlery.) After she is grossly insulted by the boorish local butcher, chivalrous Hannibal takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking the head home as a trophy for his patroness. This is just target practice...
That was the objective when the Iraqi government announced in March that they had executed an infamous psychopath and insurgent hit man named Shukair Farid, "the butcher of Mosul," whose gang slaughtered more than 200 during a yearlong rampage in the northern city. Farid, a police lieutenant, had gained fame after appearing on the hit reality-TV interrogation show Terrorism in the Hands of Justice, on which he told in gruesome detail of the scores of Iraqi lives he took, often using his uniform to trap victims. Farid didn't go easily. On the morning the convoy of Iraqi officials...
...Making the Sale” and “Buyer’s Remorse,” respectively, Rich likens the book’s narrative to a two-act play. If this were a play, Rich—who was branded “The Butcher of Broadway” during his New York Times tenure as chief theatre critic—has just given the Bush administration the worst possible review...
...Pagac Villeneuve-Loubet, France Torture on Trial Do critics really believe that the murderous terrorists of Al-Qaeda can be reasoned with? [Sept. 18] Appeasers apply the word illegal when evaluating the steps taken by the U.S. and Britain in Iraq. Let us be clear: Saddam Hussein was a butcher. Kofi Annan claims that the countries of the Middle East are unhappy with the actions of the coalition. Does that include those who have declared that Israel should be wiped off the map? It's time some people got out of cloud-cuckoo-land and into reality. Action, not words...
DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...