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...could not ask for a kinder, more considerate contract killer than John Keller. Animal lover, stamp collector, consummate pro, he dispatches his victims--an overpaid baseball player, a nosy therapist, a troublesome housewife--with a cool efficiency they would appreciate if they weren't already dead. Block has more than 50 books under his belt, but none are more endearing--or subversive--than his Keller novels. In a world gone mad, the hit man with a heart of gold may be the only one who still knows right from wrong. You find yourself thinking, "So he kills people. Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...Another is the growing ill will among Ecuadorans toward foreign and U.S. firms like Occidental Petroleum, which recently had its operating contract in Ecuador revoked and $1 billion of its assets there seized for what the government called "unethical and illegal actions." (Occidental denies the charges.) What's more, Correa has pledged to kill free-trade talks with the U.S.; he has threatened to freeze Ecuador's foreign debt payments and says the country's economy should not "indefinitely" remain dollarized. (Ecuador switched its currency to the dollar in 2000.) Says Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Another Chavez On the Rise in Ecuador? | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...Seahawks claimed that Kacyvenski’s release had only been temporary. The popular captain of the Seahawks special teams, however, was a free agent and signed with St. Louis the day after the Seahawks offered him a new contract...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Kacyvenski '00 Signs With Rams | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...deal is a prorated $585,000 contract, which will come on top of the $494,118 the Seahawks still owe Kacyvenski because veterans with at least four years’ experience have guaranteed contracts after each season’s first game...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Kacyvenski '00 Signs With Rams | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

Party leaders concede the point that their revolution hasn't lived up to everything they promised. But they say voters still see the difference between where the parties stand. Former Republican chairman Ed Gillespie--one of the authors of the Contract with America, on which House Republicans ran in 1994--says, "Our party is still better when it comes to spending than the Democrats, stronger on national security than the Democrats and more likely to share concerns about the coarsening of our culture that a majority of Americans share than the Democrats are." Strategists are putting an optimistic face even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of a Revolution | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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