Word: necks
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...with their heads bowed surrounded by heavily armed, shrouded captors. A second video, sent to al-Jazeera the next day but never aired, recorded an execution: one of the four hostages, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, shouted, "I'll show you how an Italian dies," just before he was shot through the neck. And the third tape, sent to the al-Arabiya network in Dubai and broadcast in Italy last Monday, preyed on the nation's hopes and fears in a cruel, subtle way. It showed the three survivors, Salvatore Stefio, Umberto Cupertino and Maurizio Agliana, perched on a couch in what looked...
...beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light bathing his torso. His golden shoulder may nod to the classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker of his eyelashes. He licks his lips and scrabbles at the crucifix around his neck, he moves his hand and the row of bands and bracelets around his wrist shuffle like waiting footmen - nothing happens, but we are bewitched. What is it about this man, with his metrosexual style and his popstar wife and his oddly named sons, that holds our attention - not just in Room...
...people in my neck of the woods...were offered up as sacrificial lambs for that deal to occur,” he said...
...More people think that Kerry will raise their taxes than did a month ago. Kerry's "unfavorables" are higher than they were before the Bush campaign put $50 million worth of advertising on the air. But the larger dynamic of the race hasn't changed. It was pretty much neck and neck a month ago. It's very much neck and neck now. And you have to wonder about the impact of all those ads on the President: in a very serious year, he has allowed his candidacy to appear sarcastic and frivolous. In fact, most negative advertising seems sort...
Despite such magnanimity, Toyota is a tenacious competitor. After years of turbocharged growth, the company is running neck and neck with Ford to be the world's second largest automaker, after General Motors. But its leaders acknowledge that efficiency is not enough if Toyota's growth is to continue. "We need to continue innovating," says Okuda. That explains a campaign to shift the industry from its dependence on petroleum-based fuels. Despite widespread skepticism, Toyota pressed on with the Prius, the world's first mass-market petroleum-electric hybrid car. A hybrid SUV is scheduled for release this fall...