Word: cobras
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...goes to bed. But during his recent surprise visit to al-Asad air base in the middle of Iraq's Anbar province, the President got an altogether different kind of report. In a concrete building sheltered from the 110°F (45°C) heat outside, Captain Lee Hemming, a Marine Cobra helicopter pilot, stood nervously opposite his Commander in Chief and a phalanx of fellow Marines and described his mission...
...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...