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Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn't mind the smell of corpses. "A trifle on the sweet side perhaps, a trifle heady, but how infinitely preferable to what the living emit, their feet, teeth, armpits, arses, sticky foreskins and frustrated ovules." Fiennes enumerates these body parts with slow precision, and in a tone of crescendoing disgust. It might be a litany of curses, a bill of criminal charges brought against a species about to be condemned...
...critical moments to create unrest, weaken governments and replant the seeds of military rule in Turkey. Over the past few days, newspapers have run excerpts from the 2,455-page indictment that suggest a sinister coterie whose alleged conspiratorial deeds wouldn't be out of place in a Dan Brown novel like The Da Vinci Code...
...metaphorical stroll from Britain's past to its future. He had breakfast at his hotel with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, now a Middle East envoy for the international community. It was followed by a meeting with the embattled current one, the Labor Party's Gordon Brown. Obama then proceeded to one at the parliament building with the youthful and charismatic David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party opposition. Also at 10 Downing Street while Obama was there: David Lammy, one of two black ministers in Brown's government, who has tried to style his own political career on Obama...
...Brown counts the days until his planned holiday at the English seaside, he looks hale, if not hearty. But the latest by-election result really has triggered some violent tremors in Westminster. If the Prime Minister feels a touch under the weather, it's probably a bout of motion sickness...
...sharp spikes, all pointing inward. They were designed to perforate skin and flesh of anybody locked inside, but not deep enough to puncture any vital organs. That way, the torturers could inflict maximum pain on their victim without actually killing him. The spikes still bore the distinctive reddish-brown flakes of dried blood...