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they had arrested Ali Hasan al-Majid, aka Chemical Ali. Back in April 2003,
the British armed forces announced they had killed him. Tomb Essence
celebrated then, but is crying like a baby now.”
Animals have also been “scored,” from Morris the Cat to Dolly the
cloned sheep to Keiko the killer whale. Choices can get personal, though. A
player told me, “I purposely Left off a good friend [former New York Post
editor Jerry Nachman] who | knew was dying, and one of our game mates
refused to list a friend’ s [famous] mother who knew she was dying.
Sometimes we just don’ t want to ‘cashin’ on our friends’ pain. How
un-American of us.”
Gamesters have scored on all the Kennedys as well as Lorraine
Petersen, the model on the Sunmaid Raisins box. But, under the title
“It' s Nota Hit!" came this email: “August 9 th—The entire Game failed
to list dancer and actor Gregory Hines, 57.". In The Game’ s 2001 Hit List,
under the subhead “Other Notable Deaths That No One Picked,”
included was “Ken Kesey, 11/1201, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’ s
Nest."
| had a visceral reaction. This was not abstract.
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