Word: drabs
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...back of my closet somewhere is a Kinko's-bound pamphlet entitled "An Unofficial Guide for Harvard Freshmen." No, it wasn't the creation of the drab FDO. Nor was it the product of Harvard Student Agencies, authors of the Unofficial Guide to Harvard...
Robinson's camouflage of drab normality fell away last week, revealing what authorities say is a stealthy serial murderer with a taste for sadomasochistic Internet sites and a likely connection to the killings and disappearances of nine people in Kansas and Missouri going back to 1984. If true, this would make him the most prolific serial killer to strike this region in a decade, and authorities say they are not done searching for bodies...
Chicken Run, a comedy-adventure, with feathers, is exactly the picker-upper this macho-movie summer needs. It's a parable of plucky sisterhood: hens who endure life's drab defeats while hoping for a break. The film is funny and touching and beautifully understated; its characters earn big laughs with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...settle in for a long wait, and watch the real punishment continue: the drib-and-drab sapping of a company that's been sweating buckets for two years under the hot lights of both Washington and Wall Street, and which now has to gear up for years more of the same. "Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft," says Cohen. "This process itself is inflicting significant damage." Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows...
...exposed themselves and yelled obscenities, near the Loeb Drama Center. One male was described as heavy-set, 17 years of age, with a gray puffy jacket, and knit blue hat; another was described as 17 years old, with a thin build, a thin pale face, dark haired, wearing olive drab jacket and baggy pants...