"Look, it wasn't the first time."

  A media person's mouth dropped open.  A riding crop was used to lift his lower jaw.  "I can't make it smile," the stern little woman said. 

     Since yesterday or maybe another day, low voices weren't arguing. 

     "We'll access the records."  Suited men and women who traveled everywhere in a pack in case we have to break out into formation assured.  

     The long and short is that in some places in the world bloodsport still occurs.  It was not the first time a dismembered body had been left at an embassy.