Word: ax
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...would Senate Republicans choose the controversial Lott after an electoral drubbing that saw them lose, among other things, the hard-fought progress they had made with nonwhite voters, especially African Americans? And why pick someone who is known to have an ax to grind with the White House at a time when the party should regroup and unify...
...million to $60 million. Three other Klimts--part of a collection stolen by the Nazis during World War II and recently returned to the owner's heirs--fetched a combined $104 million. An anonymous moneybags phoned in a $40.3 million winning bid for Paul Gauguin's Man with an Ax--a record for that artist. "We were flabbergasted by the prices," says New York art dealer Dominique Levy. "The bidding was coming from everywhere. It was an electric evening...
...their conversion so enraging? Well, first, howzabout an apology? It's maddening that there's no cost for being wrong, even when it translates into thousands of people dead and billions of dollars down the drain. In our culture of value-free celebrity, in which a famous ax murderer equals a famous actress equals a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adelman and Perle have merely earned another 15 minutes as hot guests on the talk shows. They have reason to be pleased, having deserted the Bush Administration five minutes ahead of the other rats. But they should...
...American operation's success might not be enough to save Ricke's job. In Germany, where Telekom still generates more than half its sales, the company is bleeding, and its biggest U.S. shareholder, the Blackstone Group, is agitating for Ricke to take an American-style ax to expenses. Telekom's sales outside Germany surged 13.5%, to $17.2 billion, in the first half of this year. But in the same period, sales at home plunged 4%, to $20.6 billion, as customers abandon fixed lines for mobile and Internet-based services...
...wake up chained to pipes in a dirty bathroom and must saw off their feet to go free A woman's intestines gleam in the sun after she's smacked by a truck A Japanese tourist loses an eyeball to a blowtorch-wielding American businessman A man fights an ax-wielding mutant with a flagpole he pulls from a corpse's skull An unlucky spelunker ends up standing in a pool of blood that reaches to her chin A naked woman strung up in a meat locker is sprayed with cold water that hardens...