Word: guts
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...says Jean Donaldson, behavior and training director at San Francisco's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. So many hundreds have called that Donaldson is busily arranging town-hall meetings on how to protect yourself from dog attack (roll into a ball, covering your neck, face and gut). "You're more likely to get hit by lightning," she explains, "but there's a knowledge void. Our image of dogs has been shattered...
...passed by Massachusetts voters as a ballot initiative in 1998 is a perfect example. Lawmakers despise the law, which prevents them from raising huge contributions in the months before an election if they wish to qualify for public financing. Finneran and Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 tried to gut the law in last year's budget, only to be thwarted by a gubernatorial veto...
...large amount of their heritage disappear. At the same time that the Blair government is banning foxhunting, it's also banning the use of nonmetric measurements, like feet, inches, miles and gallons, in favor of European measurements that most Brits abhor. Blair has reformed the House of Lords to gut it of its historical privileges. He is busy merging the British armed services into a pan-European force. After the next election, he is all but committed to abolishing the pound sterling in favor of the euro...
...word, haragei, which refers to the hara, the belly (as in hara-kiri) which is, in Japanese culture, what the heart is in the Western tradition: the core and home of will, authentic emotion, sincerity. Haragei, (a sumo wrestling match of contesting authenticities; the art and politics of the gut, basically) is not articulate or rational, but merely asserts its mystic will. Some Japanese have worried that their country's politicians rely too much on haragei, and have suggested that Japanese should westernize themselves toward more rational, systematic debate...
...gut decision to turn his life into art set Lennon apart from McCartney in terms of style. Lennon was a diarist , while McCartney was a dramatist. Many followed Lennon into the new world of singer/songwriter-dom. But few matched his poetry or honesty. For Lennon, confessional songwriting was much more than just the prominent use of the first-person pronoun, which seemed to become the norm in the self-obsessed...