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...previous position as a drama critic for The Times earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Broad-way" for his harsh analyses--an epithet to which he referred laughingly during his talk...
Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...
...pages of police complaints. And there are the scars: Kay and several members of her family still bear jagged reminders of Jackie's nasty handiwork. A few weeks before Kay shot her ex-husband, he stabbed Kay, her sister Debbie and Debbie's boyfriend William Robinette with a butcher knife--a crime for which he was out on bond when he died...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "My dad was a butcher. And he trimmed every last speck of fat off the meat he sold. Why? To give people their money's worth. We should balance the budget the same way. He didn't use a meat ax, and neither should...
...Baucus walked 631 miles across the state seeking Montana's U.S. House seat. Now wanting a third Senate term, he walked 857 miles this year. Also known for his "workdays in Montana," Baucus has been (for a day at a time) a butcher, a road worker and a grocery bagger. In his own job in Washington, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, he waves no hard-line ideological flags...