Word: knifings
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...past, al-Hashimi's group has claimed to speak for the Sunni insurgency and it still has ties to myriad groups, so his photo op with Carroll, 28, was somewhat predictable. Sunni groups are in a political knife-fight with the dominant Shi'ite groups, who have claimed that only they can provide security and, as a result, must retain control of the ministries of Interior and Defense. Al-Hashimi's public presentation of Carroll, who was kidnapped Jan. 7 in western Baghdad, seemed to be his way of saying that while Sunnis may have taken her, they were also...
Caspar Weinberger, who died Tuesday at 88, arrived at Ronald Reagan's Pentagon in 1981 with the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his penny-pinching ways as budget and welfare chief for presidents Nixon and Ford. But shortly after taking over the Defense Department he became known along giddy Pentagon corridors as "Cap the Ladle," for the billions of dollars he and Reagan were pumping into the nation's military might. In a rush to push the Soviet Union into bankruptcy, he championed new fleets of tanks, planes and ships - and the Strategic Defense Initiative designed, as Reagan...
...over labels "the most romantic place on earth for lovers young and old." The central feature here is a handful of finely wrought performances, beginning with that of Anna Friel. Her edgy portrayal of Denise, an ex-junkie-prostitute trying to reclaim her daughter, is as sharp as a knife. Despite far subtler roles, Wendy Crewson and Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle-class couple facing financial ruin. They act cool, but their words (and later their actions) are scalding. And Kevin Pollak, as a two-bit hustler named Michael who is trying to exploit...
...scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars, we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins within which life can thrive. For more than a century we've been monkeying with those margins. It's long past time we set them right...
...Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways