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This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing...
...RELEASED. PETER BLEACH, 52, British arms dealer convicted of parachuting crates of weapons into India's West Bengal state in 1995; after a presidential pardon; in Calcutta. Bleach and an aircrew from Russia and Latvia were arrested in Bombay in 1995. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christian Nielsen, fled India, and the intended recipients of the weapons were never confirmed...
READY, SET, SHOP Now it's time to head to the dealer. First, you negotiate on the car and divulge as little about your situation as you can, says James Walsh, author of Smart Wheels, Hot Deals. Don't say whether you have a trade-in, how much money you're putting down, how much you want to pay a month or how you plan to finance the car. Just say, Let's talk about price. Only when you have settled on a number, do you say, I'd like to talk about financing. The dealer will tell you what...
DIED. RON O'NEAL, 66, whose role as a violent, street-smart cocaine dealer who beats the system and leaves the drug world a wealthy man in the hit 1972 movie Superfly epitomized the blaxploitation genre; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...
...this was an unbearable impugning not just of his research but also of his genuine desire to apply his science to public health. Even more worrying was China's decision in August lifting the ban on sales of civets. By September, the markets were again crawling with them. One dealer in Shenzhen, when asked if he could procure a thousand civet cats, replied, "That's hard." He paused, then added, "It may take me a day to get that many...