Word: knifings
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...great drama of the skin incision. This much you should know about real surgery: The skin incision is the easiest part. Human skin cuts about like a pork chop (or a Fruit Roll-Up, if you're a vegetarian); a scalpel is usually no sharper than a good kitchen knife. Knowing where and how deep to cut is also super-basic to the practice of surgery, about like starting the engine is to the practice of driving. The skin is (unless you're a plastic surgeon) ultimately just another thing standing in the way of what you really want...
With the grace of a Ginsu-knife salesman, Donald Trump mixes advice--"Go with your gut" and "When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades"--with self-aggrandizing outbursts, like declaring that his dealmaking is so superb he "could negotiate peace in the Middle East." He is echoed only somewhat less obnoxiously by his co-writer, Bill Zanker. Thankfully, Trump stops short of listing the powerful women he claims to have slept with. "If I did, this book would sell 10 million copies," he says, adding smugly, "maybe it will anyway." Unfortunately, he's probably right...
...phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in New York assumed she'd want to "tell her story." But interviewing the girl again, I had to explain, could bring as much shame and danger as the circumcision knife...
...conferences of their own. "We were unaware of the negotiations. If they had meetings we were not notified," Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, told a virtually identical group of Capitol Hill reporters. "Those that talk about being able to run this through the Congress like a hot knife through butter, I'm sorry, that's not the way it's going to be. We're going to push and insist on a new approach...
...take a new statement from Alexandre, police arrested and charged two men within hours, thanks to the license plate Alexandre had glimpsed in the near-dark, and Alexandre's ability to spot them in a police lineup. The two men go on trial this Wednesday, charged with "forced homosexuality," knife-wielding and kidnapping; the third suspected attacker - the acquaintance of Alexandre - will stand trial in a juvenile court...