Word: leash
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Those scenes, caught in shocking candor by someone's digital camera, played over and over last week in the world's newspapers and magazines and across the airwaves. Jarring new examples emerged: the same female soldier, holding a leash wrapped around the neck of a naked prisoner cringing at her feet. Even when the shots were pixilated or cropped for modesty, nothing could hide the raw cruelty of U.S. soldiers ridiculing the manhood of Iraqi captives. Of all places, these atrocities occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, once the infamous home of Saddam Hussein's torture chambers...
...deadlines for troop withdrawal - a move that is certain to lose some of their more liberal members, but that could attract support from Republicans, who are facing increasing impatience for progress in Iraq from their voters at home. And while there is still some discussion of a "short leash" strategy - passing a small funding bill, and continuing to fight - that idea is losing steam, because Democratic leaders believe it would simply give Bush a series of victories...
...poll. Unfortunately for the Democrats, that 9% includes the noisier elements of the party's base. Senator Barack Obama found this out the hard way recently, when he said in an Associated Press interview that perhaps the best course of action was to "keep the President on a shorter leash"-that is, approve funding but limit the funds, forcing Bush to keep coming back for money. This unleashed the ire of Markos Moulitsas Z?niga, proprietor of the Daily Kos blog, who wrote with typical restraint, "What a ridiculous thing to say. Not only is it bad policy, not only...
...Power” and punk rock in general, while managing to be modern at the same time. “Free & Freaky,” for example, contains a statement about the war in Iraq: “My sister went to war / Tied a guy up on a leash / I think about it sometimes / When I’m sitting on the beach.” “My Idea of Fun” points out, “Now is the season / For war with no reason.” However, one has to wonder what Iggy...
...video for “Upgrade U” features short skirts, a celebrity collaboration, and a lizard on a leash. If only the camera gave a longer look at any one of these spectacles, we might have a good time. As half of music’s most talked-about power couple, Beyoncé uses “Upgrade U” to remind her audience that she’s still an independent woman capable of creating her own chart-topping singles. While not a ground-breaking cinematic event, the video grabs the viewer’s attention...