Word: beards
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...going to have to do something different and hope we can pick it up tomorrow.? They should fare better on Monday; Phelps swims against Australia's Ian Thorpe for the first time in a freestyle race, world record holder Peirsol swims for his first gold, champion breast stroker Amanda Beard aims for a medal in the 100m breast stroke, and world record holder Natalie Coughlin races for her first Olympic gold medal in the 100m backstroke...
...door and asked what they wanted, a gunshot rang out. The bullet smashed through the flimsy door and ripped into Girenko's chest, killing him almost instantly. At first glance, Girenko might seem an unlikely target for assassination. A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist who earned his reputation as an academic specializing in Swahili studies and research on kinship. But he was also the leading expert on an indigenous Russian tribe - the country's growing band of neo-Nazis. As founder of the Group for the Rights...
...Sometimes no amount of grunt is sufficient, bringing powder monkey Cannell (he prefers the term shot firer) to the fore. A Tasmanian miner who decided 20 years ago that the notion of cutting one's hair and beard was "bulls____," Cannell is a key player because early attempts by Archer's helpers at using explosives were a mixture of dangerous and comical. Once or twice, recalls Archer, in the minutes after a failed detonation, he crept toward the explosive "not 100% certain that it wasn't about to go off." Other times, they used too much of a too-powerful...
Instead of catching a plane to the Bahamas, the former wrestler-turned-politician grew a beard and packed his bags for Camp Harvard, where he taught seminars, talked policy with late-night partygoers and wrestled Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’85 to the floor of the Leverett Dining Hall...
...those eight-figure earners, the largest presence at this French film fete was a fellow from Flint, Mich., who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture. Michael Moore was prowling the Riviera, and this time the game he aimed at was George W. Bush. Bull's-eye! His Fahrenheit 9/11 captured Cannes's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, from a jury headed by Quentin Tarantino. "What have you done?" the winner asked in benign shock. "You just did this to mess with...