Word: handiwork
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...Bush in the last five years as his speechwriter, Michael J. Gerson. When you hear the president use terms such as “axis of evil” or “soft bigotry of low expectations,” you are hearing Gerson’s handiwork. Gerson—a former presidential speechwriter and top adviser who left the White House mid-June—is at Harvard this week as a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government. He now serves as a senior fellow at the Council...
...Just after breakfast, locals have come to grab melons and fresh greens from the surrounding well-irrigated farms. Tourists are marveling at the inventive lotions, potions and sauces stall holders have concocted from the remote region's boab trees. Also for sale are indigenous art and craft and the handiwork of local women. A handful of people have gathered around a young woman displaying a laundry gizmo. Slim, tanned and cheerful, Sheree O'Brien, 34, is spruiking The Amazing Handiwash, a plastic agitator that cleans dirty clothes in a bucket...
...many diplomatic posts are hard, especially in a place like Iraq - dangerous, fluid and with unreliable intelligence. A former Australian official who worked on Iraq says the atmosphere is like that of an emergency room: "You just go from one crisis to the next." Yet most of the bureaucratic handiwork on Iraqi Oil-for-Food was done from the comfort zones of Canberra and New York...
Looking back on my handiwork, I am especially pleased with a section that should have been called “Fred Versus the Volcano.” Fred and his girlfriend are casually strolling on the peak of a mountain when she slips and falls into the dormant volcano’s yawning maw. Fred peers wistfully into the lava-redness...
...inconceivable that both the acts of torture themselves and the images thereof—thousands of photographs and hours of video recordings—were the handiwork of a mere nine bad apples operating without the knowledge or blessings of their commanders. Pfc. Lyndie England, the first to be convicted in conjunction with the abuses, testified that she was following the orders of her superiors. The Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for at least one confirmed prisoner death at Abu Ghraib, has yet to have any officer prosecuted in connection with Abu Ghraib. The evidence is damning, and yet, U.S. military...