Word: errants
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...Democratic debates. Most memorable was the line with which he took the sheen off one-time GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb and 9/11." Democrats realize that with Biden, they are likely to see some occasional errant punches. "I hope so," says one Obama adviser. "Because that will mean he is swinging...
...January 28, Laboureur, a middle school technology teacher, slapped an 11-year-old who responded with a vulgar epithet to Laboureur's orders to straighten up his desk. Summoned by the headmaster to confront the errant student and his parents, Laboureur acknowledged and apologized for delivering the blow, and received a verbal reprimand. But the father of the swatted child, a member of the local gendarmerie, considered that punishment too light. He filed a citizen's complaint for "violence against a minor," and his law enforcement colleagues brought Laboureur to the station, where he was questioned, fingerprinted, photographed, DNA-tested...
...Carew, a resort once highly favored by the Victorians. A year later, when his body didn't turn up, he was officially declared dead. But in December 2007, Darwin walked into a central London police station claiming to be suffering from amnesia. Just days after his miraculous return, the errant canoeist was arrested on suspicion of fraud. And it turned out that in the meantime his wife had sold the family home, moved to Panama, and possessed assets totaling some $1 million. On arriving back in England following her husband's reappearance, she was arrested at Manchester Airport...
...Open at St. Andrews, says British links courses such as Birkdale magnify the inherent capriciousness of golf, demanding extraordinary patience and equanimity in the face of fickle conditions. In contrast to American courses, the rough in Britain is typically not uniform, leading to inconsistent results for errant shots. What's more, the weather along Britain's coasts can change so quickly that golfers teeing off in the afternoon may find themselves playing in completely different conditions than competitors who started earlier in the day. At Birkdale in 1998 Woods lost his chance for victory when he caught the worst...
...should trump the individual's right to choose. Parents torn between what's good for the world and what's good for their child will-no surprise-choose the child. But even then, they wonder if that means to opt for the vaccines and face the potential perils of errant chemistry or to decline the vaccines and face the dangers of the bugs. There is, as yet, no simple solution, but answers are emerging...