Word: neck
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...young man held a sign that read FALLUJAH, CEMETERY OF THE AMERICANS. After the flames died down, a couple of men pulled the burned bodies from the vehicles. A man stomped on a headless corpse while the crowd chanted, "God is great." The mob tied yellow ropes around the neck and thigh of one body and dragged it along the road. Another man ran up to the body and slammed a 4ft.-long water pipe down on what remained of the torso. About half a dozen men then affixed two of the bodies to the back of a dark...
...eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar party battling for first place with about 20% of the vote each. The apparent erosion in support for the PDI-P, which...
Harvard and Stanford remained neck and neck throughout this year’s rankings. Stanford trailed Harvard Business School by one point and tied the Graduate School of Education...
...second varsity eight race, both boats were neck and neck approaching the end of the race. With no finish line, officials were forced to judge the winner with their naked eyes, and gave the Bears the victory by a seat...
...Vancouver Canucks. All Bertuzzi did was sneak up behind Colorado Avalanche centerman Steve Moore toward the end of a 9-2 game last week and punch that member of the winning team in the side of the head. Then slam Moore's face into the ice until his neck broke and the blood pooled. Bertuzzi was rearing back for another shot when other players intervened. Some fans at Vancouver's GM Place called the police to have them arrest Bertuzzi--and this is his home stadium...