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...Critically? "Haven't got a clue either. This is an adult movie, and it deals with themes that you don't see in the cinema very often." Jordan's best films tend to receive modest box-office attention and highly disparate critical assessments. One journalist called his recent The Butcher Boy "trash," while it appeared in over twenty others' Top 10 lists...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jordan's Love Affair with Movies | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...careless destruction of the wilderness around him. Hearing that huckleberry pickers in his area have been ordered off privately owned fields, he fumes, "What becomes of the true value of country life--what, if you must go to market for it? It has come to this, that the butcher now brings round our huckleberries in his cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unregarded Berries | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

According to the Boston Herald, Abraham's son Jack took over the shop when Abraham died a year after the shop's opening, dropping out of a college pre-med program to become a butcher...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkey Day Brings Business to Savenor's | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...garhi make both the tools Semaw found and the ones used to butcher animals at Bouri? "If it wasn't garhi," asks White, "what would it have been?" Semaw is more cautious. "Australopithecus garhi is the best candidate thus far," he concedes, but he doesn't rule out the possibility that another species, yet undiscovered, deserves the credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...hideout, and just before the new year, two of the last three Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, turned themselves in for a while to the government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer Rouge bigwig still at large, Ta Mok, a one-legged general known as the Butcher, was captured in March and now awaits trial. For the first time in more than a generation, there are no Cambodians in refugee camps across the border in Thailand, and the Khmer Rouge, held responsible for the death of 1.7 million Cambodians during their four years in power alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Into The Shadows | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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