Word: knifings
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According to the Vancouver Province, Jordan has put a deposit on a summer rental on the coast in West Vancouver, Canada, a posh suburb where his neighbors would be folks like Bryan Adams. There, with the chords of Cuts Like a Knife wafting out to the Pacific, Jordan could decide whether to re-retire. (He left for 1 1/2 years to play baseball, and--since he refused for a long time to talk to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED after it criticized him--let's just say as an outfielder he was an outstanding shooting guard.) His agent David Falk told TIME...
...worked, and Kasich gets another notch on his budget knife. "This is his résumé," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "He knows how difficult it is to run for president from the chaotic House, so he needs to develop a track record of being the one true man among the scoundrels -- the keeper of the flame." Kasich's larger problem is with the political and economic tides; with the budget surplus estimated at $34 billion and counting, shrinking the government just doesn't seem as urgent as it used...
...pistols, had discharged 51 rounds of ammunition, fatally injuring two students and wounding 18 others. Afterward, when deputies drove to his family's gingerbread-trimmed A-frame in a wooded subdivision, they found his parents shot to death. After his arrest, a handcuffed Kinkel managed to get at a knife taped to his leg and lunge at an officer in a police interrogation room. He was subdued with pepper spray...
...Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than a Swiss Army knife. But the decree also prohibits the company from "tying"--forcing customers to buy any single product as a condition of licensing Windows itself...
Everyone in the state department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Henry Kissinger grumbled after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest." So true, even now. In his new book, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (Hill and Wang; 647 pages; $35), the patrician Bundy is still inserting the knife in a gentle, gentlemanly way. His title comes from Sir Walter Scott's lines about the "tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive...