Word: leash
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...first night of the Republican National Convention—Monday, Aug. 30—a junior Bulldog found himself on a Secret Service leash after harassing Vice President (and Yale dropout) Dick Cheney. Thomas Frampton, a liberal leader on the New Haven campus, was arrested for assaulting federal officers after coming within 10 feet of Cheney’s private seating area and shouting anti-Bush slogans...
First, on Monday night, a junior Bulldog found himself on a Secret Service leash after harassing Vice President (and Yale dropout) Dick Cheney. Thomas Frampton, a liberal leader on the New Haven campus, was arrested for assaulting federal officers after coming within ten feet of Cheney’s private seating area and shouting anti-Bush slogans...
...Forty-eight people, eight boats, three dogs and one monkey on a leash - together they assemble on a narrow island in the Seine to enjoy a summer?s day and the spectacle of one another. What?s wrong with this picture? From a distance some of the figures have the heft and stability of Mesopotamian statuary. But step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple...
...Lyndie England, the most prominent face of the abuse scandal, claims, “I was instructed by persons in higher rank to ‘stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera.’” Maj. Gen. Antonio Taquba, who led the initial investigation into the abuses, has spoken of an overall “failure of leadership.” In the military, the chain of command goes all the way to the top. A scandal of this magnitude leads to the secretary of defense, and ultimately to the commander-in-chief...
...command of the traveling window-blind salesman, the boy next door--and the girl. This time women can't privately tell one another that if only we were in charge, we might all have a chance of getting along, because there she is, Private England, gloating, holding the leash. And the female general in command was telling reporters last summer that conditions were so much nicer now at the prison that she was worried the prisoners "wouldn't want to leave," as though she expected a spread soon in House & Garden. Nor was there much room for philosophical debate over...