Week4-美醫師殺獅王

Minn. dentist who killed Cecil the lion returns to work

2:08 p.m. EDT September 8, 2015

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Walter Palmer returned to work Tuesday morning in an attempt to resume his life and career, but the presence of protesters, cameras and journalists made sure his day at the office was anything but business as usual.

Palmer made a beeline for the front door of his dental practice shortly after 7 a.m. as a handful of demonstrators and animal activists shouted at him, and photographers scrambled to document his return. Bloomington Police were on hand to maintain order and assure Palmer's safety.

One woman, who was not a patient or associate of Palmer's, turned out to support him. "Crazy people that are out here calling for his murder and extraditing and hanging and stuff, it's insane," said Stephanie Michaelis of Bloomington, Minn. "The media should back down and let this thing be settled in the foreign courts if that's what needs to happen."

Palmer is the big game hunter who shot and killed Cecil, a beloved and collared lion who lived in a Zimbabwe game refuge in July.

In an interview conducted jointly by The Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune that advisers said would be the only one granted, Palmer said again that he thinks he acted legally and that he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed one of Zimbabwe's treasured animals.

An avid sportsman, Palmer shut off several lines of inquiry about the hunt, including how much he paid for it or others he has undertaken. No videotaping or photographing of the interview was allowed. During the 25-minute interview, Palmer gazed intensely at his questioners, often fiddling with his hands and turning occasionally to an adviser, Joe Friedberg, to field questions about the fallout and his legal situation.

"It was interesting to see how he wanted to control what got out there," AP correspondent Brian Bakst told KARE-TV's Lou Raguse in an interview about his discussion with Palmer. "People have seen the pictures of him, this dentist with the bright white smile all over the internet. We never saw that smile once. It was just a very serious, business-like expression the entire time."

Bakst told KARE-TV that Palmer was very careful about sharing too much detail of the incident. "He wouldn't answer how much he paid for the hunt. Wouldn't really get into any level of detail of whether he would go back to Africa," Bakst said. "He wouldn't talk much about the kill and how this lion was first in their gaze. And how they targeted this specific lion."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/09/08/minn-dentist-who-killed-cecil-lion-returns-work/71870386/

 Structure of the Lead：

      WHO-Walter Palmer

      WHEN-September 8, 2015

      WHAT--Walter Palmer killed a lion 

      WHY-Because people are angry about what Walter Palmer had done

      WHERE-Walter Palmer's office

      HOW-angry

1.beeline-直線:捷徑

2.extradite-拿獲歸案

3.insane-瘋狂的；荒唐的

4.collar-給...套上頸圈

5.stun-使...震驚

6.avid-貪婪的；熱心的；渴望的

7.fiddle-不停擺弄；虛度時光；不經意地做事

8.gaze-凝視
9.scramble-倉促行動；爬
10.inquiry-調查；質詢
11.undertake-答應；從事