Word: fingers
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...Officers were sent to the intersection of Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets where a local resident claimed that a white male parking control officer called him a “faggot” and extended his middle finger. The individual who filed the report told the parking control officer to come back and say it to his face...
...beginning of my summer has been spent flying from city to city at a moment’s notice, living in a hotel out of a well-packed duffle-bag, getting finger-printed for access at work and being legally bound to secrecy in all my endeavors. If I had heard about this job description a month ago, I would have sworn I was working as a double-0 agent for MI6, Britain’s intelligence agency, or that Ian Fleming could have just as easily made James Bond a summer intern at a consulting firm...
After weeks of pressure to explain what it knew about the alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq before launching the war there, the Bush Administration has placed the issue in CIA Director George Tenet's lap. Administration officials have been subtly pointing the finger in his direction, saying all their knowledge of Iraq's weapons programs came from Tenet's agency. That apparently didn't apply to a British intelligence report, cited by President Bush in his State of the Union speech, that claimed Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from an unnamed nation later identified as Niger...
...officials responsible for secretly assessing - and now at all costs finding - Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are gearing up for another week of finger-pointing.?? CIA Director George Tenet may appear later this week before a closed-door session of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a U.S. official told TIME,?to answer questions about whether his agency overestimated Iraq's chemical and biological warfare programs...
...Jayson Blair was busted for plagiarism and fabrications--and then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...