Word: armfuls
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...DIED. ELMER BERNSTEIN, 82, composer who created both jazzy and gentle scores for more than 200 Hollywood films over 50 years; in Ojai, California. Bernstein composed the muscular jazz scores for such '50s films as The Man With the Golden Arm and Sweet Smell of Success; worked in a more delicate, bluer key for films like To Kill a Mockingbird and Far From Heaven; and created the familiar, oft-heard themes for The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. His only Oscar came for his score (but not the songs) to Thoroughly Modern Millie...
...Baghdad, authorities wavered between efforts to keep him at arm's length and attempts to invite him into the political process. The Bush Administration regards him as a thug and refuses to engage with someone it sees as a carbon copy of Iran's ruling mullahs. Nor do Western officials in Baghdad trust his tactics. "We've been watching him take over the city of Najaf bit by bit by bit," says an official. "That experience has given us cause to question his credibility when he makes promises and to wonder whether he is prepared to play in a political...
...minister, an army chief and an operations commander of sorts. At recent meetings, insurgent leaders--including Iraqi nationalists, Baathists and sundry Sunni extremists--have debated streamlining their activities under a single leader. According to several sources involved in the movement, Syrian intelligence agents in the area, who have helped arm the groups and aided their propaganda campaigns, have also been participating in the debate...
MEANWHILE UP IN THE SKY ... Scratch Landing A pet cat that escaped from its flight bag forced an SN Brussels airplane on its way to Vienna to turn back after 20 minutes. The cat made its way into the cockpit and scratched the copilot "aggressively" on the arm. Brushing aside fears of a feline terror plot, the airline promptly launched a new advertisement promoting the quality of its in-flight food under the slogan "Fresh fish every day" - and featuring a picture...
Bowman could see that Phelps was born to swim. Blessed with a sinewy, whiplike body, a long torso and large hands and feet, plus a 6ft. 7in. arm span that extends 3 in. beyond his height (the usual ratio is 1 to 1), Phelps has as close to an ideal swimming body as you can get. Like other top swimmers, he doesn't so much power through the water as slide along it, propelled by a vigorous dolphin kick that surges from his head to his toes in a high-amplitude wave...