Word: croc
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...Night Seven: Lever announces he is off to Bali but promises to return: "Now it is a personal challenge." A local solon announces he may try his hand at the croc, claiming to have expertise?"because we work with them every day in the legislature...
...Night Two: Lever's plan is to stun the crocodile with a flashlight at night and then grab it. He manages to spot the croc twice and even touch it. But his boat's propeller gets tangled with plastic bags, and a crowd of 500 onlookers and media people?many with cameras and flashlights of their own?scares the animal away...
...Night Three: The crowd swells to 1,000. Lever spots the croc and heaves his personally designed, nonlethal bamboo harpoon. He misses. He then shines his flashlight over the water and thinks he catches the red reflection of the croc's eyes. He's mistaken: they are bobbing Coke cans...
...Venus Williams--ruling the game, the fashion industry is playing mixed doubles with the world of tennis. At the spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look on Centre Court: a Diane Von Furstenberg-designed Reebok tennis dress with corsetlike lacing up the back...
MEANWHILE Man Bites Croc In Malawi, businessman Mac Bosco Chawinga, 43, was swimming in Lake Malawi after a long day's work when he was attacked by a crocodile. The beast grabbed both his arms in its jaws and was dragging him into deep water when Chawinga decided to put up a fight. Make that a bite. He sank his teeth into the croc's nose, forcing the creature to spit him out in pain. Incredibly, Chawinga managed to swim to shore and safety...