Word: brush
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...Reno have John Huang. But Fred Thompson clearly wanted immunity for four Buddhist nuns who were at the infamous temple fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore. So on Wednesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance...
...father in and out of bars, life with mother living out of cars, life alone. But now, at 23, she has sold more than 5 million copies of her debut album, Pieces of You. And she's got Jazz. Lovingly, she picks sawdust out of his hoof with a brush claw...
Firearms experts for both sides agreed last week that the new test was inconclusive, but the defense investigator who oversaw the test argued that better results might be obtained after cleaning the gun barrel with a wire or nylon brush. Prosecution experts countered that such a cleaning might damage the barrel, tainting its value as a source of evidence. Brown put off a ruling until the parties reconvene this Friday...
Several of those searching for the decision's center focused on Sandra Day O'Connor, arguably the most conservative of the concurring Justices. Although agreeing that there is no broad-brush constitutional right to assisted suicide, O'Connor defined a "narrower question" of "whether a mentally competent person who is experiencing great suffering has a constitutionally cognizable interest in controlling the circumstances of his or her imminent death." She left the question open, but advocates like Laurence Tribe, who argued the New York case, read her words as suggesting possible constitutional exceptions to state bans. Several of the remaining concurring...
...birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write a sensuous sentiment, in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child's face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. Finally, she will be not the paper but the pen--an artist writing love notes in the medium of flesh...