Word: cocks
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Critics who damned Blair as Bush's poodle were eagerly looking for such signs. When Brown took over, they dared to hope that the British bulldog would now cock its leg on neocon policy. Miliband's own appointment hinted at a shift. He is seen as a skeptic on the war in Iraq, though he supported the government line - something he is reputed not to have done when Israel invaded Lebanon last year. "Blair's position was too close [to the U.S.], and now they have to find a way of getting some distance without causing a rift," says Charles...
...laid to rest. "I was one of the only relatives who sat through the trial," says Jim Swire, an English doctor whose daughter, Flora, died in the crash. "I went into that court expecting to be convinced those two men were guilty; I emerged thinking it was a cock and bull story." Like some other family members, he is calling for an independent inquiry - not just into the Megrahi conviction, but into the attack itself and all the investigative and judicial tangles that followed. "I am very concerned it will cause anguish to people who thought they had closure...
...Mighty Heart, based on the book Pearl's wife Mariane wrote about the huge and increasing desperate attempt to find Pearl before his kidnappers assassinated him, is a conscientious and in many respects admirable account of this effort. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, A Cock and Bull Story) in the semi-documentary manner he favors - hand-held cameras, lightly rehearsed staging, considerable improvised dialogue - it has great immediacy and it tells a complex story very coherently. A bewildering number of institutions - Pakistani security forces, the American consulate in Karachi, Pearl's newspaper, even the FBI - turned the Pearl...
...Basically, he can never have any opposition. He wants to be acknowledged as the only cock on the dunghill. He must have a one-party state. That's always his mentality...
...this aspect of Korean culture can hardly be used to explain the case of Seung-Hui Cho. It takes more than cultural stigma to make a person load and cock...