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After a couple of days, with the persistent incentive of the stinking corpse, Alex and Juliet convince David to dismember the body and enjoy the cash. Though it's never made clear what the money was for or how Hugo got it, the requisite thugs are quick to show up...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Scottish Thriller Isn't Even Six Feet Deep | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Explaining away violence is a Gerry Adams specialty. Whenever Irish Republican Army bombs dismember innocent victims, it is Adams, president of the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, who sits down before the microphones and attempts to transform atrocities into regrettable but necessary collateral damage in a just war against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Irish Puzzle | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

These doctrines show that the Administration is anything but trigger-happy. Why, then, is Clinton marching resolutely toward the deployment of U.S. soldiers to help NATO police Bosnia? The President promised the forces once the warring parties all agree on a settlement. The one now about to be signed will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When to Go, When to Stay | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

"We would hang you in a public ceremony at the Commons, and we would dismember you first," he said.

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Alarms Hit Dunster, Mather | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

How can it have happened? Police officers are alerted that a dazed, naked Asian boy is staggering on a Milwaukee street. Jeffrey Dahmer, 31, convinces them that 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone is his homosexual lover. Dahmer happens to be a convicted child molester, but the police do not check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milwaukee Murders: Did They All Have to Die? | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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