Word: bags
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...bag. Thanks to images from a cell phone, we now know that the Iraqi National Police unit we turned Saddam over to was in fact a Shi'a lynch mob. Saddam's hangmen made no effort to hide their allegiance, taunting the deposed Iraqi leader with the name of radical Shi'ite cleric and power broker Muqtada al-Sadr. Afterwards, they danced around Saddam's corpse...
...begrudge Pelosi her four-day "coronation," as right-wing wags have dubbed it? The events themselves are hardly ostentatious: there's a mass, a tea, and prayer service. The most raucous thing on the schedule is a concert by Tony Bennett. Add a tote bag and it'd be a PBS telethon. Indeed, the demographic-pleasing tenor of the events reeks of a self-conscious desire to highlight all soft-focus interest groups that come with the Pelosi package: Italian, female, Catholic, grandmother. With so many facets illuminated, perhaps Pelosi's people are hoping no one notices what's been...
...Baghdad. And I couldn't hide the fear gnawing at me about my time ahead in Anbar Province, where U.S. forces suffer the highest casualty rates in Iraq. Indeed, I saw my first dead U.S. serviceman as I touched down in Ramadi, a shapeless form in a black body bag waiting in the dark to leave on one the Chinook helicopters that had brought me. The image was fresh in my mind as I introduced myself to McClung, the public affairs officer who had arranged my trip...
Haven’s friend is her large orange bag, in which she carries her laptop, her iPal, her calendar, sometimes stickers, her notebook, and a small stock of Vitamin Water. Without her big orange bag, she is lost. Without Haven’s stock of optimism, kindness, amazing ideas, gorgeous writing, and unfailing ability to make an okay story into a beautiful one, FM would be lost. She is our big orange bag...
...Kessler, who underwent surgery over the summer to repair a torn knee ligament, met with the press, still wearing her heavy knee brace, several more members of the Harvard women’s hockey team filed by with evidence of physical distress. Sophomore defender Nora Sluzas had a large bag of ice taped to her knee. Freshman winger Randi Griffin held some frozen H‘O to her hip region...