Word: ducking
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...That's a lot of money we can be using for wildlife conservation.' RACHEL LEVIN, spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on why the agency won't spend $300,000 to fix a duck stamp that mistakenly lists a phone-sex number instead of a number to re-order stamps...
...afflicted leader like the boy in the bubble. From now on, candidates in swing states won't go near him without a mask, gloves and a bottle of Purell. John McCain, the party's nominee, is promising to fumigate Washington. Add one more metaphor of sickness: the lame duck...
Japanese Prime Ministers are organization men: it is not in their job description to stand out. But Yasuo Fukuda was not only colorless but headed a particularly lackluster administration. In the last few weeks, his critics have described him as "dead man walking" and "a lame duck." On Monday, he told them they wouldn't have him to kick around anymore and tendered his resignation...
...Avery is a visual surrealist proving nothing is permanent, McKimson is a show-biz satirist with throw-away gags and celebrity spoofs, Friz Freleng is the least contorting, while Jones's specialty, comic character, is unusual for the chopping-up of motion and the surreal imposition: a Robin Hood duck, whose flattened beak springs out with each repeated faux pas as a reminder of the importance of his primary ineptness), the Warner cartoonists are refreshing iconoclasts because they concentrate on so many other humor antecedents besides brutal mishaps, cultural punning, ballet-like sadism" - then top it with the snappy summation...
...That post-Sharon political drift, combined with the serial reversals suffered by the Bush Administration across the Middle East - and its lame-duck status as the region waits for a new U.S. President - may at least explain why Israel's political class had been willing to allow Olmert to stumble on for so long. Now, Israel's leaders will be forced to forge a new equilibrium in a more testing time...