Word: duckness
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...fight and to die that the future will hold no wars." Granted, Koizumi did make annual visits to the shrine a campaign promise in 2001, and some speculate that he fears the wrath of the Japan Association of War Bereaved Families if he stops. But Koizumi is a lame duck?he has repeatedly said he will not try to extend his term when it expires next September?and last September's election proved that Koizumi's support is broad enough to risk alienating influential domestic constituencies in the name of better international relations. A close Koizumi advisor, who asked...
...graphic novel, The Rabbi's Cat, this year), the Dungeon series, which parodies such "sword and sandal" works as Conan or Lord of the Rings, has become a huge hit in its native country. The first two English-translated volumes reveal why. Filled with comedy - the stars are cowardly duck and vegetarian dragon - and adventure, these full color stories have an inventiveness rarely seen since, well, Conan or Lord of the Rings. 'Dungeons' and Ducks 3/19/2005
...broken at all beneath those fishnets,” said McKee. The team members nodded in assent. “I hate this effing stupid team,” said Lowrey, clutching a cigarette. “I can’t wait until I am a lame duck. Too bad I actually will be lame,” she said, exhaling into Fee’s face...
...salvage his remaining three years. The focus will soon shift to the 2006 midterm elections and then to the race to replace him in 2008. And a midterm election that doesn't go the Republicans' way would draw a bright line of demarcation between a presidency and a lame-duck Administration...
...members of the Cambridge School Committee denounced Galluccio’s proposal as invasive and unnecessary. “The simple asking [for an outside audit] has cast aspersions” on the integrity of the School Committee’s financial data, said Benjamin R. Lummis, a lame-duck committee member who was ousted in November’s elections. Nancy Walser, a member of the School Committee who was reelected in November, dragged four large file boxes with her as a prop to represent the amount of paperwork faced by school administrators in an audit. Under Cambridge?...