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Europe's benchmark bloodsucker is generally considered to be Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula. Andrei Codrescu's novel The Blood Countess (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23) offers an equally unattractive alternative: Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Though never tried for mass murder, Bathory is said to have been confined to a room of her castle, where after five years she died...
...following in the iconoclastic footsteps of his father, played host to one of the world's prickliest politicians this week: Russian hypernationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. No meeting between the two was reported, but the heavy-drinking bad boy Vlad and Kim, reportedly a dedicated party animal who loves Cognac, seem to see eye to eye: Zhirinovsky carefully had nothing but good things to say about Kim in the North Korean press...
...Vlad the Impaler...
Ragulin and fellow Adams House incumbent Gian G. Neffinger '93 traded blows throughout the week in a campaign that many house residents described as "nasty". The negative campaigning culminated with a Neffinger poster declaring, "Hey Vlad--Suck...
Several more rounds of campaign posters were exchanged, culminating with a sign headlined "Hey Vlad--Suck Me." That poster also said Ragulin was "full of shit" and accused the council incumbent of "openly lying...