Word: beggar
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...public bus stand in front of Police Chief Headquarters, waiting to ferry police trainers and students to the academy about three miles away. The blast, which could be heard at least a mile away, was detonated by a suicide bomber. Investigators say the bomber was pretending to be a beggar, and tried to get on the bus to collect alms from the passengers, a common practice on public transport. When the police stopped him from mounting the steps, he detonated the bomb, which appears to have been packed with ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel...
...resist the regulation of business and markets, often even when we would personally stand to benefit from that regulation. But you could do worse than to start with the fact that for more than 70 years, we have played a game whose object is to corner a market and beggar our neighbors. Every year pundits decry video games like Bully or Grand Theft Auto, yet our first introduction to one of business's most predatory, illegal practices is through a widely loved game with adorable doggy and thimble pieces. It's as if someone had invented a children's board...
However, he did go along with some pranks. After he was elected to the Lampoon, he and other newly-elected Lampoon writers had to pull pranks around campus as part of “Fools’ Week.” Updike dressed up as a blind beggar in the Yard, while fellow ’Poonsters dressed as priests nearby and cheated him of his money...
...pause into “Rough For Theater 1,” with the transition marked simply by a lighting change and Fishburn making his slow way down from the pedestal to the stage to play the blind fiddler A. He was joined by Wilner as B, a crippled beggar. The two try to make a connection, wedding B’s sight with A’s mobility, but ultimately B becomes cruel to A, and both are left alone. This was the most humorous of the plays, despite the subject matter—as well as the most...
...Japan, has been traveling to China since 1994 and shot most of this collection in the late 1990s. But many of the photographs look much older. A woman humping a load of bricks up a cobblestone street in Yunnan, a peasant in a straw hat watching river boats, a beggar near the imperial palace?these scenes could date back to a time when the camera had only just been invented. This is deliberate. Delano collects old photographs and says he's drawn to the similarities between today's China and a bygone America, especially in the "gritty honesty, the timeless...