Word: brazenness
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...welcome respite. Representing Skinner at his most accessible, songs like “All Goes Out the Window” and “Never Went to Church” are either offerings to the less adventurous of his listeners, or minor failures. Ever an intriguing combination of brazen bollocks jokes and swings at cultural insight, it can be hard to tell where Skinner is aiming his punches at times. Then again, albums with songs dedicated to themes as disparate as trashed hotel rooms and late fathers aren’t all that strange in the rap world. And besides...
...Mousab al-Zarqawi. Their British colleague faced a similar fate. Two Italian women taken four weeks ago were also reportedly executed, though Rome would not confirm the claims. Ten employees of an Iraqi cell-phone company were abducted in Baghdad and Fallujah. That rebels could so easily stage such brazen attacks has left many observers questioning whether the U.S. can possibly bring sanity--to say nothing of stability--to the country it has inherited...
...transaction outside eBay by wiring the money to a Western Union office. In her excitement Smith didn't stop to think that the arrangement sounded a little fishy. She jumped. And she got scammed. She wired the $2,400 and got no dress in return. Only a heartless--and brazen--message from the scam artist copping to the fact that she'd been...
...government, newly paved roads, more children in school, the appearance of a few shopping centers in Kabul. But the improvements in the lives of many Afghans are tempered by the country's persistent insecurity, which is fueled by a rampant drug trade and a Taliban-led insurgency growing more brazen, sophisticated and lethal. More than 1,600 Afghans and 99 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat last year, the bloodiest period since the fall of the Taliban. Since the beginning of 2006, eight more Americans have died, including one last week. Few believe the fighting is likely to subside. Lieut...
...same time as those that first surfaced in the spring of 2004—they nonetheless are of tremendous importance today. Not only do they underscore how atrocious the abuses at Abu Ghraib were, but they reconfirm our reproach of the Department of Defense for its brazen and unapologetic refusal to mete out punishment to those who are truly responsible for these crimes...