Word: armfuls
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...reporting them promptly when they happen. So Washing-ton's diplomatic corps was stunned last week when Keyser, a practitioner known for impeccable judgment and intimate knowledge of the intelligence world, was arrested by federal agents. The diplomatic gaffe was surprising enough: the U.S. keeps contacts with Taiwan at arm's length out of deference to China, and visits to the island by key diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval. But the intelligence blunder?exposing himself to blackmail by making the secret trip?was even worse. "Even if he pulled [the trip] off," says one shocked former...
Fitzpatrick must have known not to bother wasting his arm on unnecessary passes. He attempted just one, an incompletion, in the frame’s opening minute and didn’t try again until after halftime...
With a ball from quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick lofted long down the righthand sideline, Howell sized up Edwards as he went to reel in the catch, then planted his teammate in the stadium turf. The hit forced Edwards from the game and left him with his arm iced and in a sling as a precautionary measure...
...South Korea relies on atomic energy for 40% of its electricity, which translates into a vast industry of power plants, government-run research labs?and a whole lot of hot fuel rods. But it is also a major player in the six-nation talks that are trying to arm-twist North Korea into shuttering its own uranium- and plutonium-based nuclear-weapon programs. After hearing the South's explanations, Pyongyang quickly trumpeted a "double standard." Then came news that the South had noticed an enormous explosion in North Korea last week, though the source was unclear...
...Brien”. The snarky pooch was missing his trademark cigar, perhaps confiscated by security in strict adherence to the Garden’s no-smoking rules. Triumph’s muse Robert Smigel kept a tight grip on his charge—the puppet never left his arm. Smigel, a longtime “Saturday Night Live” writer and co-creator of “The Ambiguously Gay Duo,” had collected a few Midwestern guests to speak with him about the demographics of the convention...