Word: butcher
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...really enjoy "spontaneous" moments, and despite years of evidence, they believe nothing provides more of them than star-filled medleys. What we learned is that Joss Stone, John Legend, Fantasia, Maroon 5, Ciara, Will.i.am, Steve Tyler, Joe Perry and Robert Randolph all have one thing in common-they can butcher Sly Stone songs beyond recognition. But at least they tried, as opposed to super duper secret guest star Sly Stone, who emerged with a platinum mohwak, strode to the keyboard, played around for a minute or two and then promptly left. Of course, if someone had killed my songs...
...provide a few delicious examples of irony. Perhaps the best I have encountered, though, was French Prime Minister Leon Blum’s remarks to a visiting German minister in 1936. While talking to the ambassador of an ideology that would, in the near future, invade his country and butcher millions of his coreligionists he said: “I am a Marxist and a Jew, but we cannot achieve anything if we treat ideological barriers as insurmountable...
...robes and turban, the Egyptian surfaced via a videotape excerpted by al-Jazeera, offering condolences for the 18 people killed in the attack and mocking President Bush for losing the war against al-Qaeda. Zawahiri said his statement was a "response to this raid," and rebuked Bush as "the butcher of Washington" and a "failed Crusader...
...Siby came to France to work in 1968 and never left. He began as a Paris street sweeper, and ended up at a butcher shop. Since it went bankrupt seven years ago, he's become a kind of elder sage in Clichy-sous-Bois. He says there are many reasons why the young men in the neighborhood are disaffected and angry. Schools are often inadequate, jobs are scarce. But the big problem, Siby says, is housing. "These young guys need studio apartments. Instead they're in their twenties, still stuck in their parents' places with their little brothers and sisters...
...Sharon’s supporters touted him as a war hero, a man who had throughout his military and political career passionately defended Israel’s expansion into disputed territory like the West Bank and Gaza. His critics maligned him as a war criminal, the “Butcher of Beirut” who bore responsibility for numerous atrocities against the Palestinian people and had dedicated his life to repressing their struggle for self-determination. But neither side could have anticipated the final act in the political life of Ariel Sharon, who had for decades championed the establishment...