Word: knifing
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...Livingston told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding his clout as Congress's most powerful chairman--the guy who doles out the money--Livingston last week assiduously tapped a base of supporters to push Gingrich...
Justice's own witnesses have been more forthcoming--and have shown far better recall. Tevanian recounted a sinister moment in which an Apple executive, surprised by a Microsoft demand that his company drop a promising software application, asked, "Do you want us to knife the baby?" Yes, the Microsoft executive reportedly replied, "we're talking about knifing the baby." During Tevanian's testimony, Judge Jackson showed his first flash of anger, tearing into a Microsoft lawyer for his overly technical and at times "misleading" questioning style...
...kind of love. With a woman, yes. She lived in Dunster House. I saw her often. Too often. The sight of her made me shudder. Her touch made me cringe. She had a shrill voice--her vowels sounded like the moan of a dolphin, her consonants vaguely like a knife scratching against a china plate...
...Piano's words, architecture involves walking "the knife edge between art and science": One day the architect is a poet, the next day an engineer. That fine edge was highlighted in the first part of his speech, which dealt with his redesign of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. This enormous, 5 million square foot space resonates with cultural significance, since it is both the former cultural center of Europe as well as the center of tragedy. The Cold War divide between East and West Germany, however, is now a matter for the history books, and Piano's task, as he noted...
...good time to be in the market for computer-based video-editing gear; you can find plenty of devices for under $300. I tried the Matrox Marvel G200-TV ($299), and I highly recommend it for the home videomaker. It's a Swiss Army Knife kind of thing, with a video and graphics accelerator (which makes everything from spreadsheets to games look better on your monitor), 2-D and 3-D accelerator, and even a TV tuner (you can watch television on your PC if you attach your cable). Best of all, it has a chip that quickly compresses video...