Word: knee
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...been flat on his back for more than six weeks, he is in constant touch with his staff and says he expects to resume duties in mid- August. After nine surgical procedures, he estimates that he has a 50% chance of losing his left leg below the knee. "Some people used to believe I think with my feet, but I don't, actually," he jokes. Says National Geographic editor William Graves, a close friend: "Richard has the same old guts and determination. If spirit has anything to do with recovery, he will make...
...guard said that while he strained his back and hurt his knee in the fall, he was not seriously hurt. Voss said he thinks his assignment to the November shift constitutes harassment and is an attempt to get him to quit...
...than one issue at a time and hence going terminally "out of focus." Now they're saying he succumbed to that rare disease, virtually unknown among recent Presidents -- the deadly "lurch to the left." Look at the bleeding heart, the conservative coroners are saying; the yellowish liver, the jerky knee. Maybe poor Bill spent too much time holed up in the White House with Hillary...
...lovely slanted eyes of the Nepalese, so exotic to Indian men, she attracts an average of seven customers a day. Her fee: $1 each -- of which the brothel owner, a squat, brutal woman, takes more than half. Despite her sexy put-on, her shiny blue dress cut above the knee and her vivid makeup, Manju, 20, radiates an odd schoolgirlish innocence, accentuated by the big white bow that adorns her hair. Alternately, she giggles shyly in talking about her life and grows frightened as she fears that the brothel owner might catch her conversing with a stranger...
...movie and record companies, however, the digital-delivery danger seems real and present. Some of the show-business opposition is simple conservatism, knee-jerk opposition to the radically new. For Hollywood in particular, a key caste system would be disconcertingly upended: major motion-picture premieres on cable TV would muddle the distinction between the gods who make theatrical films and the hacks who work in television...