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...Hannibal takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking the head home as a trophy for his patroness. This is just target practice for his grand mission: to track down and kill, splendidly, the men who defiled his sister and made him into this sacred monster...
...wife to the basement of 12 Arrow St., where he had been spending his days preparing Lame Duck Books for its opening. There were still boxes everywhere, he recalled yesterday, some filled with old, rare books, and others with champagne that had been delivered in advance of the grand opening celebration...
...space watchers, these are game changers. In the three years since President George W. Bush announced his plan to send Americans back to the moon and on to Mars, questions have persisted about whether NASA has the institutional wherewithal to pull off so grand a plan and whether there's enough scientific rationale to even try. But now there's reason for optimism on both fronts...
...siblings are heading a new entity called simply the Weinstein Co., which sounds relatively unflashy, although its grand ambitions dwarf anything the pair did at Disney. Movie production and acquisition still form the backbone, but the Weinstein Co. is positioned more as a diversified boutique media company encompassing home video, cable television, Broadway theater, book publishing, video games and, of course, the Internet. With dozens of projects under way, the Weinsteins estimate that they'll break even next year, turn a profit in 2008 and probably launch an IPO by the decade...
Tennis great Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles...