Word: ducking
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...Wehk," indeed. "Duck," in its entirety, from the Renée French collection, 'Marbles in my Underpants...
...will not be known for some time), he has instinctively withdrawn the presidency, by degrees, from the gush of the Oprah business. It's shrewd to have done so. He is working his agenda. He has almost no time. If he loses Senate in 2002, he's a dead duck...
...agreeing to accept questions at an Undergraduate Council town hall meeting in the fall and sporadically showing up at house dining halls, albeit to dine at separate tables replete with fine linens, china and a list of invited guests. These acts, however, were the calculated moves of a lame duck president, a man who had completed his job without the distraction of student input and now had luxury of casually listening to student complaints to which he knew he would not have to respond. Lack of genuine interest in student opinion was and is a defining feature of the Rudenstine...
...first time I made that, I thought I'd sell a couple to Japanese customers," Nish says. "Instead, it's become one of my most popular dishes." Another worker shaves thin circles of black truffle to decorate a wedge of hamachi, or yellowtail, sizzling in a pan of duck fat and bacon morsels...
...Even if he survives impeachment, President Wahid is already a lame duck. But the question of his successor remains far from clear: Vice President Megawati is the country's most popular politician and is constitutionally well-placed to simply assume the reins if Gus Dur is ousted. But Rais clearly has ambitions of his own, and the loose alliance of Islamic parties and former Suharto supporters that kept her out of the top job last time may not be in a hurry to install her. It's not even clear that she wants the top job right now, when increasingly...