Word: fleshly
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...splendid sun-spangled day in June when I took a crosstown cab to arrange my son's circumcision. Jews have circumcised for thousands of years--ever since God (as the Torah tells it), having made a history-altering pact with Abraham, directed him to "cut my Covenant in your flesh." Some biblical commentators suggest that the circumcision was meant as much as a reminder to the Lord as to the Israelites, a kind of divine Post-it not to extirpate these people. My thought as we rolled eastward across Manhattan was, There must be easier ways...
...without the help of a law firm that understands the local business customs--like meeting etiquette--that can baffle an American. Just ask Domenikos. During his discussions with NTT, it was not uncommon for the firm's high-ranking executives to nap around the boardroom table, leaving underlings to flesh out the deal's specifics, from the budget to the duration of the contract. Cross-border deals are also riskier. "A deal isn't a deal until money changes hands," Domenikos says...
While sophomores and first-years now remember only the new system, many members of the revamped SAC say they want the campus to see the club as home to those more interested in the substance of politics than in pressing the flesh...
...consumes Waylaid. Lin's narrator gets his notions of it from cast-off porn, his coarse friend Vincent and the flesh trade that surrounds him. His attitude is, not surprisingly, neither romantic nor realistic; he divides the women he meets into "hardcore" or "centerfolds." When he loses his virginity, however, the experience is brutal in a way that shreds his cheap porn fantasies...
...above an immaculate Zen rock garden?is strewn with the bodies of dismembered yak-uza. A willowy blonde with wild eyes, clad in a blood-smeared yellow tracksuit, brandishes her Samurai sword, preparing to dispatch three more victims. She grits her teeth. The yakuza scowl back. As sword meets flesh and the three villains slam backwards through a wooden lattice, the mastermind behind the mayhem can't suppress a smile. "Pow!" exults an elated Quentin Tarantino, bounding from his perch beside the camera to congratulate Uma Thurman, the killer blonde, on a beautifully executed fight scene. "Very, very cool...