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...Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly scene. Before killing Miglin, someone had wrapped him in plastic and brown paper and wound his face with masking tape, leaving only a hole for his nose. He was then repeatedly slashed and stabbed, and his throat was cut with a gardening saw. Afterward the killer or killers reportedly fixed a ham sandwich and shaved with the dead man's razor...
...meticulous construction and details of the book are matched by a measured lyricism as ripe and succulent as a fresh papaya. A dead woman's throat is "an estuary of color and disorder"; a father and daughter camp under "the quickening wounds of a million stars." A refrigerator coughs "like a four-pack-a-day smoker," and nothing seems impossible, not even a man killed by a hurricane-blown avocado. Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss...
Frans Swarttouw, former chairman of the Fokker aircraft company and one of the Netherlands' most colorful businessmen, bid an unusual farewell to his countrymen a few weeks ago. Stricken with throat cancer, the executive, 64, who once characterized an entrepreneur as "a guy who works hard, drinks himself into the ground and chases women," said he had stopped his painful therapy and opted out of a life-saving operation that would have left him an invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death...
...phenomenon that they exhibit. Is competitive drive a trait that inherently cannot be selectively applied? Is it impossible to rein in our classroom instincts? I do not believe so. Rather, Harvard students seem to have made a collective choice. We view it as safer to maintain a cut-throat edge at all times and so we have permanently locked ourselves into a defensive posture. Lowering our guard might mean certain death, or worse, a lower slot on the curve...
...devastate the assets of the waves of newcomers who have flooded the market with money over the past few years. But today's testimony doesn't necessarily mean a rate hike is coming after the Fed's May meeting. In December, rates remained rock steady after Greenspan cleared his throat and sent investors scurrying for cover. Still, Greenspan made it clear that he didn't think that this unprecedented expansion means we have entered a new, recession-proof age: "History is strewn with visions of new eras that in the end have proven to be a mirage. Excessive optimism sows...