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Verger has posted a $1 million reward for Lecter's capture and, under the table, offered a $3 million bounty to anyone who can bring Lecter to him alive, ahead of the FBI agents, including Clarice Starling (played by Oscar-winning Jodie Foster in the Silence film), who hope to get the doctor back in custody. Verger wants to watch and enjoy as a specially trained herd of swine slowly eat Lecter alive...
...title flower triggers a savage turn of events when the poet Ingrid Magnussen poisons her lover, consigning herself to a jail life and her 12-year-old daughter to Los Angeles' foster-care system. Young Astrid gets off to a shaky start at the home of a born-again Christian who shoots her in a fit of righteous jealousy. She survives that, though, as well as prison notes from her mother, which include sentiments like this: "Sometimes I wish you were dead, so I would know you were safe." Fitch tends to get lost in the lyricism of her prose...
...control [NATION, May 24], the kindest thing I can say about those who, like gun advocate Lisa Bochard, think teachers should carry guns is that they are fools. Do you want your child taught by someone who is willing to shoot students? Would this kind of atmosphere foster learning and personal growth in America's public schools? NIKKI CUNNINGHAM Columbus, Ohio...
Much has been made of Marilyn's desperate personal history, the litany of abusive foster homes and the predatory Hollywood scum that accompanied her wriggle to stardom. Her heavily flashbulbed marriages included bouts with baseball great Joe DiMaggio and literary champ Arthur Miller, and her off-duty trysts involved Sinatra and the rumor of multiple Kennedys. The unauthorized tell-alls burst with miscarriages, abortions, rest cures and frenzied press conferences announcing her desire to be left alone. Her death has been variously attributed to an accidental overdose, political necessity and a Mob hit. Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder...
...secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb, "I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power...