Word: bladed
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...Amid the more obvious pleasures of American blockbusters, don't miss this suave summer treat. Gabrielle is as refreshing as a gulp of absinthe, as cool on the neck as a guillotine's blade...
...England, including eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library. E. Forbes Smiley III’s practice of visiting libraries, cutting maps out of rare books, and selling them to dealers around the world came to an end when he dropped an Exacto knife blade in Yale’s Beinecke Library last June. According to documents filed by the Department of Justice, the library employee who found the knife became suspicious because such blades are often used to remove and steal pages from rare books. When she found a man looking at books of rare maps...
...Then the skin care specialist says, "Now it is time for the blackhead extraction." She attacks me with a tiny blade, boring into my pores, digging out the dead skin cells and accumulated oil-basically, most of what makes up my face. Perhaps I'm not qualified to say this, but blackhead extraction is more painful than giving birth. Apparently when I checked off "sensitive skin" in the initial questionnaire, it also meant "please gouge out tiny holes from my tender flesh." I would have cried, but I was afraid my tears would bind to the moisturizer-soaked cotton balls...
...makes it run worse. Making changes that affect people’s lives without considering the consequences is unethical leadership.An institution is community property, and if the owners want it changed, they should tell the community how and why. On this point a university is different from a razor blade company. Harvard can’t bottle up the truth; misrepresentations are too easily exposed. So management is better off being direct and transparent with the stakeholders. At Harvard, the alumni-elected Board of Overseers, at least, has to buy into important changes planned by the President and Fellows...
...Linklater, though, can be credited with two achievements. For one thing, he has made the first close adaptation of a Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email...