Word: jacked
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...have access to a larger play area. There is no shortage of toys for the dogs, who presently have what appears to be a stuffed striped bass or rainbow trout - it's hard to say from the pixelated live feed - among other playthings. (Around Halloween, a stuffed Jack-o-lantern made a brief cameo...
...idea has some prominent backers, including Katyal and former assistant attorney general Jack Goldsmith, who clashed with senior Bush Administration officials over Guantánamo and other issues during his time at the Justice Department. The Associated Press, citing unnamed Obama advisers, reported Monday that the President-elect plans to put forward proposals for a new court to handle some Guantánamo cases. But many legal thinkers disagree with such an approach, arguing that all such cases should be prosecuted in federal courts, which have proven effective in many instances. Also, many argue that new national-security courts would...
...American comics was a big deal. Because America was like this fabled foreign land. When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty, it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's Spider-Man fights used to happen in and around. So it's always been this kind of exotic babylon. And that's so for Alan as well. We used to get the American comics imported...
...Start, Go! said their first performance together was exhilarating but not perfect. Powers, a senior computer science major at the Extension School, broke a guitar string in the middle of a song. He had a spare, but he didn’t realize that guitar’s jack was broken. He finished the set with the broken string. The glitch did not prevent Start, Go! from securing the prize.The same thing happened to Elephantom. Pianist, songwriter and secondary vocalist Matthew A. Aucoin ’12 said when the group’s guitarist’s string broke...
...raspy-voiced ballad feel that Adams effortlessly maintains, they tend to focus more on the hook and groove. “Evergreen” is a happy tune with snappy acoustic phrases and a mellow that aren’t a far cry from (I hate to say it) Jack Johnson. Another sound new to Adams is the soulful, gospel-tinged “Let Us Down Easy,” which offers a taste of early Stax, a hearty gospel chorus, and Adams’ signature twang. Adams closes “Cardinology” with...