Word: finger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first leg of J.J.'s return voyage last week was the 11-mile, 45-min. trip by truck from Sea World to dockside. Once aboard the Conifer, J.J. was carried through gentle swells to a position 2.1 nautical miles off Point Loma, Calif., a scenic finger of land near San Diego. There, amid a noisy flotilla of 12 boats, the sling was lowered, and chief boatswain's mate Thomas Young barked the words never before heard: "Release the whale...
...summer vacation in Minnesota last year. Mitch told his friend Andrew O'Rourke, 13, that the situation had been "misunderstood"--he was only trying to help the toddler pull up her pants after she went to the bathroom. But Mitchell also told authorities that he "put his finger inside of her once." The girl corroborated that statement, pointing to an anatomically correct doll. Mitch was ordered to undergo psychological counseling...
...build a case around the Hale loan unless Tucker confirms Clinton's role in it. And sources familiar with Tucker's testimony say he won't do it. Though no friend of Clinton's--the two have been rivals for decades--Tucker can't or won't finger Clinton for anything. Which leaves Hillary...
...author, then 26, posed strung out and exposing her midriff. The book sold well and established Wurtzel as a hipster social critic even though it dealt entirely with the subject of herself. Now, looking more self-possessed, Wurtzel graces the cover of her second book topless and giving the finger. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (Doubleday; 434 pages; $23.95) is, more or less, a meandering lamentation on the fate of irrepressible women, those too angry, too tormented, too selfish--those who, say, would prefer to see big pictures of themselves on book jackets when stock art would do. Unless...
...Jonesboro, the finger-pointing continues. Gretchen Woodard, mother of 13-year-old accused killer Mitchell Johnson, tells TIME this week that her son was not the instigator of the sniper shooting that left four of his classmates and one of his teachers dead. ?Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn?t take specific aim,? Woodard told TIME reporter Sylvester Monroe. ?We don?t need to paint a rosy picture of Mitch. He knew right from wrong...