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...second day as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown warned Britons, "We face a serious and continued security threat to our country," and his new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has already twice chaired the government's emergency response committee, Cobra. As investigators hurry to try to sift fact from a distracting mess of theories, they'll hope that Agent Luck remains on their side...
Bagging It: Chicago-based designer Lisa Kingsley has created everything from T shirts to batik prints, but it's her handbags in exotic skins, such as ostrich, python and cobra, that have captured the imagination of fans like Gwyneth Paltrow. The Virginia clutch, right, comes in nine colors, all inspired by a trip to Tulum, Mexico kingsleyhandbags.com...
...imagine I'll ever forget, in The Shadow of the Sun, an account of sharing space with a furious cobra, or, in Another Day of Life, his lonely admission of dependency on daily telex connections with Warsaw, when he "felt like a wanderer in the desert who catches sight of a spring." And there are lines that resonate today, some of which I found last night flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most...
...honestly, isn’t that the most democratic thing we’ve heard in years? Is that the American Promise? Is that Harvard’s Promise? You bet it is. 3. “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)” by Cobra Starship. Snakes on a Plane is probably the most revolutionary movie of our generation to date. I mean, it was basically an internet joke that went way out of control. And, to tell the truth, it was kind of a model for our UC campaign. A bunch of our initial drafts involved...
Through natural selection, a host of natural enemies have evolved: think the lion and water-buffalo, the cobra and the mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature’s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence...