Word: hooks
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Challengers never give whites the benefit of the doubt. They assume whites are racist until they prove otherwise. And whites are never taken off the hook until they (institutions more than individuals) give some form of racial preference to the challenger. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are today's best known challengers. Of course, most blacks can and do go both ways, but generally we tend to lean one way or another...
...Republicans who think the stem-cell breakthrough gets them off the hook are going to end up very unhappy. This issue will not go away...
...tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped to gape at a large, dead shark hanging from a hook outside a butcher's shop. It was one of those fleeting moments when Arabs and Jews forgot their differences and stared in awe at one of God's truly scary creatures. But it doesn't take much--a stabbing in the Old City, a riot or an explosion--for the lines...
...ever studio makeup department; five makeup-artist uncles; and himself. Over 50 years, Monty Westmore lent his touch to 100 movies, including The Late Shift (for which he created doppelgängers for David Letterman and Jay Leno and scored an Emmy nomination) and Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Hook, the latter nabbing Westmore an Oscar...
...going to spend the next two years in your car. If you can't trust the people you're with, if they don't have your back, then you're done." All that time at the wheel of Giuliani's town car gave Kerik what cops call the "hook," or juice, that he'd never had. In 1998 Giuliani put Kerik in charge of the entire corrections division, overseeing 12,000 employees and a budget of $800 million...