Word: defiant
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...using his uniform to trap victims. Farid didn't go easily. On the morning the convoy of Iraqi officials drove out to oversee the execution, 30 cars ambushed them with gunmen firing PKC automatic weapons. After fighting their way through to the gallows, the executioners were surprised at how defiant Farid was as he faced his own death. When asked to verify his identity before they put the rope around his neck, Farid said, "That's me, so what." "That guy was ready to go to hell, I guess," says a government official...
...DreamWorks animated movie, seems assembled from a brainstorming super-session, in which bright guys spit out funny gags, and every one of them gets into the movie. With a barrage of these jabs, Flushed Away works you over and wears you down, until you surrender to giggles or get defiant and shut out the noise...
...this holy haggling puts me in a decidedly unfestive mood. So here are my final proscriptions on Christmas. Born-agains: if you want to emphasize the religious aspect of Dec. 25, you must pronounce Christmas "Christ Mass." And to you Scrooges, defiant against a hundred years of amiable American tradition: if you can't say "Merry Christmas," fine. But don't take...
...reason may be the tepid response from other rivals, now trickling out over the op-ed pages of national newspapers. Following Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's defiant stance in the New York Times last week, UPenn President Amy Gutmann took to the Washington Post on Sunday with a similar defense of early admissions. (The Daily Pennsylvanian notes the latter today...
...suing journalists into submission." To some extent, it may be working. "You have to think twice before writing about him," says Marites Da?guilan Vitug, editor of Newsbreak magazine, which is fighting $437,000 in damage claims. Arroyo says he is merely exercising his rights. Some journalists are striking a defiant note. Conrado de Quiros, a frequent critic of the First Gentleman, complained in a newspaper column that while several of his friends had been sued, he has not. "I feel left out," de Quiros wrote. "I protest...