Word: jabbing
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Musykantsky's alert that the country is "at war" was a jab at Russia's liberals, who have been fighting a losing battle for more civil rights. Throughout the post-Soviet reform period, Moscow's city government has been enforcing Soviet-era rules that require visitors to register with the police. Russia's Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal authority, has repeatedly held that these rules violate the rights granted by the Russian constitution. But constitutional debate in Russia is shaped more often by shrapnel than by legal doctrine. Putin's anti-Chechen rhetoric often seems a calculated reminder...
...your "60-Second Symposium" on how to respond to a pie in the face [NOTEBOOK, June 12]. I commend Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman for the presence of mind to deprive the self-righteous jerk with the pie the satisfaction of a hit. What she deserved was a left jab followed by a straight right to the nose. Our becoming so incredibly civilized is exactly what has encouraged the anarchic behavior exemplified by pie-wielding adolescents. RIP THOMAS Cleburne, Texas...
...accounts, the woman among the sport's famed newcomers who can really fight is the undefeated Ali, who sold her nail salon last year to devote herself full time to boxing. It doesn't hurt that she's a jab off the old block. In Detroit two weeks ago, Ali was knocked down in the second round for the first time in her career by Karen Bill. With her dad at ringside and buoyed by chants from the 14,000-strong crowd--"Al-ee! Al-ee! Al-ee!"--she struggled up at the count of eight, then beat on Bill...
With his liquid-quick left jab working to perfection, he breezed through the competition to win the junior national lightweight title with such distinguished individuals such as Al Capone and Gene Autry looking on from the stands...
...think it was a light jab," says Dershowitz, who is quoted on the book's back cover. "It was very well intentioned...