Word: mayhemic
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...need guns? What purpose do they have in society except to encourage murder and mayhem? Why shouldn't guns be banned? Anyone caught using a gun while committing a crime should be put behind bars for the rest of his or her life. If this punishment won't deter crime, I don't know what will. KANCHAN K. LALL Wallingford, Pennsylvania...
There are some moments in Washington life when it seems as if the entire political class is conspiring to prove that the rules are...that there are no rules. The mayhem surrounding Newt Gingrich's ethical problems has that feel to it. In the past few weeks all the important lines of law and decorum have been crossed--by Gingrich, by House Republicans and Democrats, and above all by the members of the ethics committee charged with keeping those lines neat and tidy. The unusual $300,000 fine levied against the Speaker by the subcommittee that spent two years investigating...
...Amid the mayhem, the director remains a perfectionist. He fusses with each shot, unbuttoning the jacket on an Irish musician who is about to be wrenched from his wife's arms by a flailing fellow passenger. An extra with a bandage on his head--presumably from damage inflicted during an earlier shot--is admonished to keep his face turned away from the camera...
...beneath the bloody mayhem lies the same knotty issue that the Republican presidential candidate has himself been working hard to articulate: How do we keep home, hearth and the middle-class dream from eroding in a world ravaged by crime, drugs and sexual confusion? Profiler's Samantha Waters (Ally Walker) and Millennium's Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) are obsessed not with the individual madmen who each week slice and dice their way into the crime fighters' paths but with keeping the world impenetrably safe for their small children...
...Chimpanzee females reveal their ovulation, and the result is mayhem," Wrangham said. Male chimpanzees know when females are fertile and often become violent...