Word: dog
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...Prophet Muhammad prohibited even the mutilation of a dead mad dog ... What happened in Fallujah is a distortion of Islamic principles, and it is forbidden in Islam." SHEIK KHALID AHMED, senior Islamic cleric in Fallujah, condemning the killings and mutilations of four U.S. civilians by Iraqis...
...CONVICTED. LESLEY MARTIN, 40, intensive-care nurse and prominent campaigner for voluntary euthanasia; for the attempted murder of her terminally ill mother in 1999; in Auckland. Police began investigating Martin after she self-published To Die Like a Dog, a book detailing the events that led to her mother's death. She faces up to 10 years in prison...
Despite admitting even fewer applicants than last year, Harvard was less selective than Yale in choosing the Class of 2008, marking the first time in recent memory that the Bulldogs have been top-dog in the Harvard-Yale admissions rivalry...
...grinner/ Be the winner") and the various cosmetic condiments that have accompanied the smile over the years, from the 18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
...idea of dropping a ball down a pole atop the Times tower to mark the New Year, an event that began to make the Square nationally famous. When vaudeville caught on, Hammerstein's son Willie emerged with a new theater in which he booked performers like Don the Talking Dog, the Man with the Seventeen Foot Beard and the Cherry Sisters--also billed as "America's Worst...