Word: mortise
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“Here your blades don’t hit too many rats with rigor mortis,” Kummer says. “And I haven’t seen a dead pig here yet.”
Most horrifying of all was the plight of those who were trapped, still living, in the mud. Many were buried up to their necks; some had their mouths stopped with filth, so they could not cry for help. Sometimes the buried survivors were still locked in gruesome embrace with the...
Pub Night has arrived at Harvard with a wave of acclamation more powerful than an exploding brewery tank of fine, smoked porter. In one fell swoop, it has solved a problem older than the dining hall sheet cake and tougher than the smoked duck. For years, Harvards social scene has...
For those who were anywhere near the areas wrecked by the earthquake and tsunami, politics was the last thing on their mind. What was left was a humbling understanding of the awesome power of nature as the aching individual human tragedy played itself out. A Swedish man begged a Phuket...
Clark's progress, such as it is, has come out of Kerry's hide. As candidates, they are doppelgangers--war heroes, foreign-policy and national-security experts, awkward campaigners with staff problems. Kerry has a much deeper and more nuanced sense of the issues; he delivered an excellent foreign-policy...