Word: necks
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...debut 2003 novel Amok, Polish author Krystian Bala describes the torture and murder of a young woman whose hands are bound behind her back with a cord that is then looped to form a noose around her neck. According to a judge's ruling this week in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, Bala was drawing not on his imagination for that scene, but on his own experience...
...author, 34, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for having a role in the murder of a Polish businessman whose body was discovered in the river Oder with a cord binding his hands behind his back that was also looped into a noose around his neck. "The evidence gathered gives sufficient basis to say that Krystian Bala committed the crime of leading the killing," the judge, Lidia Hojenska, told a packed courtroom. She added: "There are certain shared characteristics between the book's narrator and the author...
...remove the stigma attached to Mae West-Jean Harlow-style hair coloring with the reassuring answer: "Hair color so natural, only her hairdresser knows for sure." And American women never looked back. As Nora Ephron - at 66, a proud artificial brunet - puts it in I Feel Bad About My Neck: "There's a reason why 40, 50 and 60 don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair...
...pretty tall to be a Mexican," one Iowan told Richardson, dressed in jeans and cowboy boots. At the fair's traditional soapbox, a must-hit event for all presidential hopefuls, Richardson - predictably - was asked about his stance on illegal immigration. With rivulets of sweat making their way across his neck and chin, he launched into his four-point plan on how to solve the immigration problem, which includes punishing employers for hiring illegal immigrants and enforcing the borders - though not with the help of a fence. "I believe if you build a 12-foot fence you'll get an awful...
...still notched very good times in the semifinals and finals the next day, Rathgeber couldn’t pull of a repeat performance of his scorching prelim time, which elevated his ranking to 14th in the world in the event. After finishing second in his semifinal heat, Rathgeber swam neck-and-neck with American teammate Robert Margalis—one of the top swimmers in the world—in the finals, but Margalis ultimately pulled away to finish second behind Thiago Pereira of Brazil. Pereira set pool and event records by clocking in at 1:57.79, while Rathgeber finished...