Word: legging
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...corner around a brick building and a police cruiser spotted him. As he ran along the wall the cop in the car tried to block his escape by driving right up to the bricks. Charles didn't quite make it past as the car hit the wall; his upper leg was crushed against the bricks by the cruiser's bumper. I met Charles because I was on call...
...Suisse, for example, currently employs roughly 500 private bankers in Singapore, more than any place outside Switzerland?and the bank has plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia: "The [Singapore] government is the smartest on earth in terms of promoting the place as a center...
WHAT'S SO WRONG WITH A PRIVATE SCHOOL'S GIVING THE KIDS OF ALUMNI A LEG...
...COAST OF ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—All I could see on the smooth water was the uncertain reflection of the Sea Hawk’s lights and the faraway glow of five shrimp trawlers like this one. I looped my leg over the edge of the boat, breathed in the breeze that was still hot past midnight. Except for Chris, the captain, and his deck hand Jacqui, I was alone and miles away from the shores of Florida.Chris was as small as a boy, though he was 41. On another shrimp boat, a battery exploded in his face...
...almost 9 in 10 after-hours admissions. Most common are injuries caused by stabbings, bashings and fist fights. To take just one example: last October mother of five Ruth Rory was beaten with a tree branch by her partner, Andrew Davey. He struck her with such ferocity that her leg was pulped and had to be amputated. She now hobbles around town on a prosthetic leg; Davey is serving four and a half years in jail. "All our people are dying through alcohol abuse," says Fraser Baker, chairman of the Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Centre. "The drinkers spend nearly all their...