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...Sorry," she said with a sheepish grimace as she made her way back to her seat and regarded the critics sitting in stunned silence. A star simply does not have to fetch her own salt...
...Moat County Tribune. Jacks elder brother Ward has become a star reporter at the (also fictional) Miami Times as one-half of an investigative team; he and his partner, Yardley Acheman, have won statewide renown with stories on a plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder of the local sheriff and the subsequent trial and conviction that put one Hillary Van Wetter on death row. The reporters hire Jack as a driver and general factotum...
...record $30.8 million was paid today for a 72-page Leonardo da Vinci manual by an anonymousauctionbidder today, more than double the amount the book was expected to fetch. The 485-year-old codex contains scientific diagrams on astronomy, geography, geology and hydraulics, including advice on flood control. The work -- sold by Christie's America to a bidder phoning it in -- was acquired for $5.6 million by oil tycoon Armand Hammer in 1980.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...said, 'I'll give you $5,000 every time I pull the trigger,' " says Grosz. Other clients, lazier or more timid, are content to order up contract killings. The current black-market price for one ready-to-mount bighorn sheep can go as high as $10,000. Grizzly bears fetch $25,000. Eagles and some of the rarer butterflies bring $1,000 apiece. Meanwhile, despite the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account...
...almost two years, said Beganovic, his family lived barricaded in their small home, slipping out a back window to fetch food, harassed nightly by neighbors. The end came on Feb. 16, when two men wearing women's stockings over their heads charged into the house demanding money. The Beganovics had none to give them. "They hit my nine-year-old," says Rasema, Nazif's 33- year-old daughter. "I saw that her nose and ears were bleeding, and I screamed at them to let her go. Then they turned on me and raped me, one after the other. My whole...