Word: brasses
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Jamie Lee Curtis unleashed the scream that made her famous in the horror movie classic Halloween yesterday and accepted her brass pudding pot at the 50th annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year award ceremony...
...whenever it had to be, inclement only for special occasions. For our days out on the rifle range, reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles - then clear skies again just in time for our arrival. And since the local brass was on hand, of course the nights were mild and the days clear from that moment on. The coldest night of the year, down in the low teens? Our very first night in the woods, back in December. Yet now, for our last and most public act as Basic Trainees...
Serving poor, underperforming schools in the glare of big-city politics has always required an unusual combination of warm heart and thick skin, brass-knuckles management and political deftness. But in the past decade "it's turned into a keep-your-bags-packed kind of career," says Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools...
...mounting violence by separatists in Aceh, Papua and elsewhere - as well as between Muslims and Christians in the Moluccas - is threatening to break the country apart, Wahid has restrained the military from maintaining the traditional order by brute force. The waning of their own authority may make the top brass more sympathetic to Wiranto's own plight, while the nationalist party of Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri has fiercely opposed Wahid's proposal to give Indonesia's various regions more autonomy as part of a federation. Megawati presided over the cabinet meeting attended by Wiranto Wednesday, and had traveled to some...
...good reason. The idea that millions of credit-card numbers are being beamed to thousands of websites every day must be an irresistible lure to any hacker with a larcenous bent. Last week e-tailers were sweating over reports of an international cybertheft that for pure nerve, craft and brass rivals any ever tried before. If the FBI doesn't crack the case soon, skittish consumers, who had just started growing comfortable with the idea of Web shopping, could grow uncomfortable in a hurry...