Word: mannered
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...only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank “No Lips?...
...execution of Charles Brooks, Jr. in a Texas prison last week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the “ethical questions” raised by a doctor’s participation in taking Brooks’s life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more “humane?...
...states spent much of the morning and early afternoon making their cases that they have been punished enough for leapfrogging the primary calendar against the Democratic National Committee's rules. Representatives from Hillary Clinton's campaign argued for why both delegations should be seated in full and in a manner fully reflective of her substantial victories in the two states. Representatives from Barack Obama's campaign countered that he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and suffered at the polls in Florida because he wasn't able to campaign there. Then the committee broke for what was supposed...
...very limited; it's coming in at 9 instead of 8. Two, there's limited access; only certain people with certain jobs get it. Third, and this is still pretty hush-hush, is that there's a career trade-off. People who opt to work in a "nontraditional" manner are stigmatized. They're getting their work done, but they're judged and punished by being passed over for promotions...
...Lopez's importance, the information that his arrest reveals may be even more relevant. For one thing, the manner in which the Bordeaux cell was exposed confirms the ways in which, experts believe, the political leadership of ETA interacts with its supporters. "The purpose of the political apparatus is to receive information and issue orders," says Florencio Dominguez, editor-in-chief of the news agency Vasco Press and author of several books on the band. "For both, ETA uses intermediaries, personal contacts who aren't well known but who can transmit information between them and their base among the [illegal...