Word: bladed
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...scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars, we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins within which life can thrive. For more than a century we've been monkeying with those margins. It's long past time we set them right...
...executing Moussaoui remains tenuous. Legal experts, and even Brinkema, have questioned whether prosecutors are overreaching in arguing that he should be put to death for what he did not do. Martin, in one of her e-mails, said she doubted that airport screeners could have detected all the short-blade knives the hijackers took aboard, even if Moussaoui had told agents before 9/11 what he knew. Of course, that is an opinion that prosecutors wish she had kept to herself...
...battle? CT: I would say, “You think you’re the illest baller in the land? / Let’s see what happens when I slice off your shooting hand!” Then I would remove a samurai blade and cut off his right hand. BL: Rumor has it that you’ve taken the NCAA’s RPI rankings and applied them to the world of juicing. Can you explain? CT: Certainly. My preferred method for evaluating girls is based on three criteria. 1) Conference: Who she runs with/who her friends...
...also of The Washington Post, were nominated for revealing details about lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s network and ties to then-House Majority Leader Tom Delay. Risen and Lichtblau, who beat out three more teams of reporters from The Los Angeles Times, Copley News Service, and The Toledo Blade, will receive a $25,000 prize. “All six of these [nominated] stories were stories that powerful people did not want the public to know,” Risen said yesterday after accepting his award. Rahul Prabhakar ’09, who had come to see Kristof...
...season, unable to feel with all the fingers in her right hand, Klassen struggled with the lingering psychological trauma from the accident. She doesn't talk about it much, but the major hurdle she had to overcome was the fear of falling into the path of another blade in the corners. "I won't tell you how close she came to losing her life," Mark Wild, the ice-maintenance technician who applied first aid before paramedics arrived, told TIME before the Games, his voice breaking with emotion. "But I can attest to the courage she had to come back...