Word: handed
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...percent on that little pop quiz. His academic record in this particular case would actually overestimate the extent of his knowledge, a revelation that can be buttressed by his recent confusion of Slovenia and Slovakia and inability to distinguish a Greek from a Grecian. (Bradley, on the other hand, was smart enough to refuse to play the game when queried by Hiller...
...exact qualities of the two most successful modern pieces in the exhibition. Jorge Pardo's untitled tapestry, one of three industrially fabricated in a Dutch factory, is by strict definitions a rug. Pardo also commissioned tapestries from a workshop in Mexico in where the weaving was done by hand but both techniques are given equal artistic creedance...
...have to look very far for suspects: America's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is still hiding just across the border in Afghanistan, and the attack occurred two days before U.N. sanctions take effect against that country for the refusal by its ruling Taliban movement to hand over the Saudi financier-terrorist. Pakistan has long been the Taliban's primary sponsor, and Bin Laden remains hugely popular with its large and growing Islamic fundamentalist movement...
...that his coup will stabilize Pakistan. Foreign observers had been uncertain of how Musharraf planned to deal with the country's fundamentalist movement and with the Taliban. But no military leader is likely to tolerate irregulars running around his capital firing rocket launchers, especially when they're biting the hand that feeds his country's aid-dependent economy. The rocket attacks may force Musharraf to act against Bin Laden, the Taliban and their Pakistani supporters, or else face being damned along with them...
...case at hand, legal experts are split on how the court will rule, partly because of the malleability of sexually based First Amendment protections - at what point do erotic dancers become simply a vice for consumption and not a form of expression? "Every court is uncomfortable when it has to deal with sexual expression as a First Amendment interest, against the societal interest in maintaining moral order," says Sanders. He also notes the difficulty in predicting how the court will fall on the issue, since it comes down to the moral views of each member. Clarence Thomas may want...