Word: knocked
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...bomb, so the Pentagon knows that air power can't do everything. Air power is not nearly as effective against a movement as it is against a government. You kill a regular army by destroying one in three of its tanks - it's like a bear: when you knock out its hindquarters, it's no longer a threat. But the Taliban is more like a bacterial infection. It's still there even if you destroy two thirds...
PAUL MCCARTNEY and rapper Jay-Z don't appear, at first glance, to have loads in common: one is the pushing-60 former Beatle who sang "Life Goes On"; the other is the thirtysomething former street hustler who sang Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). But both performed without material reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike...
...Catholic, small-town, the daughter of the police chief--none of which prevents Bev (Drew Barrymore) from getting knocked up by the wrong boy (Steve Zahn, playing dumb but sweet-natured) at age 15. The rest of the movie is about her trying to realize her ambitions (college, writing books, ensuring her son's love) while dealing with her husband's fecklessness, her boy's fractiousness, her own foot-in-mouth feistiness. It is somewhat repetitive, but it is also wonderfully acted, especially by Barrymore. Like the movie itself, she's neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandizing--just real...
...attacks on Arafat will come from the PFLP organization in Damascus rather than in the West Bank or Gaza. Arafat decided to arrest at least eight of them. The Popular Front, for him, is a lightweight boxer that he can easily knock down. But he would suffer from the campaign they would launch against him from Damascus, which started yesterday with accusations that the arrests are aimed to serve only the interests of the Americans and Israelis...
...pleasantly surprised to reach for the iron cast toilet paper holder, aside which sits a feature we all have dreamed of: “the buzzer”. This doorbell-like utility used to summon thy man servant eliminates the fear that at some point we may need to knock on the stall next to us and utter those prolific words, “Do you have a square to spare?” And yet, the toilet is just one of the many jewels in this lavatorial crown...