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...broth for a sick child. It encourages him to raise sadism to an art, his murders as elegant as Japanese flower arrangements, as dramatic as the flourish of a Z from Zorro's blade. Hannibal the swordsman-calligrapher slashes X's on his first victim. Later he inscribes the letter M, for Mischa, all over one of the men who had killed and consumed...
...published by the Humane Society of the United States, cage-free egg production costs between 8 to 24 percent more than battery cage egg production, which translates to an increase in production cost of about 3 to 12 cents per dozen eggs. Hoopes and her supporters have written a letter to HUDS urging them to switch to cage-free eggs. The letter recognizes HUDS’ other efforts to promote environmental sustainability and commends its Food Literacy Project. Any student can sign his or her name to the petition by requesting a paper copy of the letter or by filling...
...virtually extinct, believers and nonbelievers see the practice as the clearest sign of a troubled American ethic - perhaps even more than any aggressive Washington foreign policy. In recent polls, more than 60% of West Europeans say they oppose the death penalty, compared to less than one-fourth of Americans. Letter-writing campaigns against the death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried in its soil. Says...
...billionaire and lived in a house owned by him. Both agitated against Putin, Berezovsky by financing human-rights and opposition groups and Litvinenko by producing two books furiously critical of the new President. Litvinenko, it is fair to say, didn't like Putin. Last summer he claimed in a letter posted on the Internet that the President was a habitual pedophile. Litvinenko also contended that Putin had been on the take from Mafia groups for years and that to advance his presidential ambitions, he had directed FSB officers to blow up apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999, killing more than...
...board had the audacity to classify me as an ‘enemy alien.’ When I applied to graduate school at [University of] Illinois, they turned me down on the basis that there was an Army air base right next to the campus. I saved that letter. I saved everything...