Word: ness
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...Institute for Young Blind People, Amadou and Mariam have billed themselves as the Blind Couple of Mali, and if the lack of an exclamation point reads as restraint, factor in that they often perform in diamond-studded sunglasses. Faced with a world that tends to view blindness and African-ness in tragic terms, Amadou Bagayoko (he plays a killer guitar) and Mariam Doumbia (she sings like an adoring aunt) go out of their way to assert that things are pretty great with them, thanks...
...over in his grave." The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like former Bush aide "Scooter" Libby. "It has become a cliché to compare him to Eliot Ness, the Chicago Prohibition agent whom television and movies made into a symbol of incorruptible law enforcement," the New York Times wrote Dec. 9, describing him as a "folk hero" in "prosecutorial spurs...
...make Irish rock relevant. Many others have come and gone since then and enjoyed their 15 minutes on the anti-oasis in the North Sea.Until recently, Scotland has had little to speak of save for bands like The Vaselines and Travis, great whisky, and the Loch Ness Monster. Now, though, Glasvegas, who hail from Glasgow, are set to change all of that. A band truly capable of putting Scotch rock on the map, all the bagpipes in the world performing “Amazing Grace” couldn’t outplay them. The four-piece group employs the kind...
...take their word for it. But—once again—the turkey is nowhere to be found. We do come across some cute rabbits, but unless a clump of them had somehow been mistaken for a turkey, the elusive bird is Harvard’s Loch Ness Monster—a myth and a mystery...
...College Sustainability Report, the only independent evaluation of universities’ campus and endowment sustainability measures, is issued annually online in order to make aggregate information about universities’ green-ness easily accessible to the public...