Word: bane
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...allow them, most dotcoms will, and pet shelters won't kill them if they're at all adoptable. But that Friday Diane Whipple, 33, a lacrosse coach, stepped out of the elevator in her tony Pacific Heights apartment building with her shopping bags. She was set upon by Bane and Hera, 123-lb. and 112-lb. Presa Canarios belonging to the two attorneys down the hall. By the time the police arrived and rushed her to the hospital, she was mortally wounded. Officers who saw the grisly scene needed trauma counseling...
...Bane was put down shortly thereafter (Hera is still awaiting her fate), but it was the dogs' owners, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who attracted most of the attention. It was later revealed that they had a close relationship with Paul ("Cornfed") Schneider, an Aryan supremacist, accomplished knife fighter and crayon artist serving a life term in California's maximum-security Pelican Bay prison. According to prison authorities, Schneider--who covers his cell with pictures of furry animals--has been directing the raising of attack dogs from behind bars. Noel and Knoller got their pets from one of Schneider...
...BEOWULF The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, with much hewing and hacking, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid--and his bravery while facing--the dictates of his fate...
...removed him as the circuit's chief judge for his "continuing disruption in the administration of justice." He had been accused of playing favorites and unfairly firing the local court administrator. He stayed on as a judge but kept a low profile--until now. Sauls clearly relishes being a bane to both sides. "That is the best I can fashion," he says, "to be equally unfair." While nobody has asked him whom he supported in the election, records show that he did vote on Nov. 7. In fact, he voted absentee...
...BEOWULF: The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...