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Last year, a newspaper deliveryman in Japan was brought to trial for killing a seven-year-old girl. After drowning his victim, he used her cell phone to take a digital photo of the body and to send the image to her mother with a text message saying, "I've got your daughter." In a country where truth is often weirder and more gruesome than fiction, few writers can compete with the stories on the evening news. The chilling exception is Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most popular authors. In Crossfire, her third novel to be translated into English...
...they'd grow enough here to fill up my driveway. "His comment reached the local Red River Valley Potato Growers Association, which decided to prove the catcher-manager and new Houston Astros coach wrong by trucking 46 50-lb. boxes to his door. Berra's not telling, but what deliveryman could have resisted shouting, "Hey, Yogi, this spud...
...work also helps them acquire Buddhist merit, improving their Karma. There's a worldly angle, too: their organization posts photographs of crash scenes outside its Bangkok headquarters to remind the public of its good work; the more photos, the greater the income from donations, it seems. Anand, a former deliveryman, says he's never had nightmares resulting from his work despite 19 years in the gruesome...
...more than 30 years, Fred McFeely Rogers zipped his cardigan, replaced his shoes, and taught children how to come to terms with a sometimes-frightening world. With songs, educational films delivered by the speedy deliveryman and an ironclad routine of clothes-changing, fish-feeding and trolley visits to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood lent our young lives a reassuring sense of order. It was not the use of stunning visual effects, the gripping nature of the plot line, or the intensity of the characters that kept us watching the man who played piano when he?...
...criminal intent. As commentators picked over the carcass of the case, Burrell was portrayed mostly as the victim of police and prosecutors, who jumped to the wrong conclusion on flimsy evidence, egged on by Diana's mother and sister - who supposedly resented that the son of a coal deliveryman had supplanted them in Diana's affections. Newspapers called Burrell "Diana's Rock." Well - that was then. Queen Blasts Barmy Butler, screamed the Sun last week. Outcast, said the Daily Mail. The Evening Standard informed its readers that burrell has betrayed us all says [Prince] William. Why? Just maybe because these...