Word: cohenable
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...those who don't savor Ferrell's brand of comic bravura, there are exchanges like this, in which Ricky Bobby - who bleeds red, white and blue while not chugging beer - tries to lap Jean Girard (Sacha Cohen), the gay Frenchman who sips espresso while racing his car, sponsored by Perrier...
...time, there were three more soldiers who had been in captivity for two years. An exchange for them was being negotiated, but was held up by one of the demands. Eli Cohen, a famous Israeli spy, was hanged by the Syrians in the 1960s. The Israelis wanted his body returned for a proper burial. Every time an exchange was proposed, the Israelis demanded his body. The Syrians would not agree to this...
...pain or physical torture. In training, you can't induce the fear of the unknown - you always know the exercise will end and you'll go home. The worst thing for us would have been to lose the sensation for life. I thought I would end up like Eli Cohen, hanging in the city square. You lose faith in reality. You can train people to survive the pain but not the unknown...
Their names may be synonymous with ice cream, but Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have always been passionate about mixing politics into their pints. As Cohen and Greenfield, both 55, embarked on a national tour to raise awareness about the cost of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, they sat down with TIME's Jeremy Caplan to talk about their cause, corporate responsibility and the ice cream they stash in their freezers...
...Cohen: Businesses have tremendous power in this country, and our voice is our best tool. It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons. Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container. If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling...