Word: fingering
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...Some U.S. allies have not lifted a finger to help bring about this new day in Iraq. They have justified their passivity by saying they opposed the war, and that opposition they in turn justify as grounded in concern for the sovereignty, safety and dignity of the Iraqi people...
...finger with which he voted. He's a martyr now." SALIM YACOUBI, Najaf resident, whose brother, 37-year-old Naim Rahim Yacoubi, was one of more than 50 voters killed on election day in Iraq...
...partner, Dr. Richard Massey (Bill Pullman), is a secular academic. But the series leaves no room for doubt that otherworldly events are going on. In the pilot, there is a bona fide miracle (the shadow of Christ appears on a mountainside in Mexico), a Satanist cuts off his own finger without bleeding, and a baby--who may be the Antichrist or Christ reborn--impossibly survives a shipwreck. It's over-the-top stuff, but so is the Book of Revelation itself, and while the dialogue is campy and portentous ("All the signs and symbols set forth in the Bible...
...State Richard Armitage arrived in Islamabad and confronted Musharraf, demanding that the Pakistanis shut down Khan's network. "If I ever perspired," Musharraf said later, "it was then." But Pakistani sources close to Khan say Musharraf backed away from arresting the scientist out of fear that Khan would finger senior members of the Pakistani military and security services as having been complicit in nuclear trafficking. "Everyone got a cut," says a Khan acquaintance, referring to high-ranking military officers connected with the nuclear program. Khan's last public appearance came on Feb. 4, 2004, when he appeared on national television...
...Comes the tsunami and we realize to our horror that Nature has merely to shrug, to flick a finger, as it were, and hundreds of thousands of us are broken, entire nations thrown into chaos and grief. It is the ultimate reminder of our common fragility, of just how precarious our species' ridiculously brief sojourn on this earth really...