Word: flashings
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...graver-than-thou in their millenarian hopes that the University and alumni will cough up a total of $12 million to fund an endowment to improve undergraduate life. If only they were making a joke—are they?—they would have my vote in a flash. Whether it be the fabricated personas—candidates touted as reformers, or outsiders, or people with experience—or megalomaniacal schemes, there is something surreal about the orgiastic frenzy of these people playing pretend. (Guys, wait 20 years and run for Senate.)It is lamentable that someone must...
WAVE CASH GOODBYE New credit cards and fobs let you buy meals and movies without a signature. Just wave your device near terminals equipped with no-swipe technology. Here are some of the new flash cards...
...Flash forward a decade. Another Bush administration and another group on the naval base for the foreseeable future. Appeals have again reached the Supreme Court. This time, though, the high court has been siding with the detainees...
...often out speaking to young people. "There's enormous wealth in this town," says Moore, who grew up in Moree's mission. "I ask young people, Don't you want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have the flash car and the blonde on your arm. But you've got to work for it." One of Moore's slogans, reproduced on a mobile-phone holder is leave the mob, get a job. Making the initial step into work for a young person from a troubled family is difficult, she says, especially with...
...flash of steel is revealing. Pang, we later discover, is the granddaughter of the founder of North Korea's repressive state security apparatus Pang Hak Se. ?My grandfather was very faithful to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il,? she tells me. Indeed, one scholar estimates grandfather sent ten of thousands to the gulag...