Word: arming
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...every reason to cancel, and hasn't, which I'm thankful for. I think that says a lot about him. He and I have been texting each other like two kids in college. I'm going to give him every opportunity to say what his plans are, how his arm is, who he's talked to. I'm going to ask him every question that needs to be asked. I'm not going to pin him down and shine a light in his eyes and torture him until he answers questions, but I'm going to do my best...
...backed government in a street battle that lasted mere hours. Now a Hizballah-led political coalition is poised to do well in parliamentary elections on June 7. And even if Hizballah doesn't triumph, it is in de facto control of the Lebanese state, able to arm and train its military wing with impunity, and to project the power of its sponsors - Syria and Iran - into Israel...
...Topeka. Bar-bashing Carry Nation took her hatchet to some of the best saloons in the state. Wichitans long ago processed the fact that a doctor with a mansion in the suburbs wore not just a gown to work but also a bulletproof vest. They kept it at arm's length, though. Some places, like some people, seem to relish any sort of attention. Not this place. No one even slowed while passing the TV trucks at the courthouse, and Mayor Carl Brewer looked queasy when I stopped him outside a city-council meeting. Not a word about Tiller...
...Number of brands GM is trying to unload. It recently agreed to sell Hummer to a Chinese firm. It has potential buyers for Saturn and Saab, but Pontiac could be junked. GM's newly consolidated European arm, Opel, is being sold to Magna/Sber bank/GAZ, a Russo-Canadian partnership...
...Like the 2001 astronauts, Sam has a chatty computer, named Gerty, which comes equipped with a metallic arm, as in the arcade claw games, three expressions (smiley-face, frowny-ace and deadpan) and the would-be soothing voice of Kevin Spacey. Like Socrates or a rabbi or a shrink, Gerty annoyingly answers questions with questions. (Sam, agitated: "Am I a f---in' clone?" Gerty, trying to deflect the issue: "Are you hungry?") Unlike HAL-9000 from the Kubrick movie, however, this computer is not totally the slave of his programmers. Sometimes it will aid Sam as he rises from impotence...