Word: nicked
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...Nick Freer wants is his digital music, and he's even willing to pay for it. When the Hong Kong-based client-services director bought an iPod, it came with software to link with iTunes, Apple Computer's fee-based Internet music store that now dominates 70% of the online-music market. From his computer, Freer can browse every one of iTunes million-plus songs. He just can't buy any of them?consumers can only purchase and download iTunes tracks now in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, because the service only takes credit cards issued in those...
...were on their way to topple Nguema's government, and had touched down to collect weapons and ammo. Nineteen other men, including South Africans and Armenians, were arrested in Equatorial Guinea on suspicion of being part of the plot. The self-confessed leader of the Guinean cell, Nick du Toit, on trial in the capital, Malabo, testified last week that he met Thatcher last year, and that Mann and Thatcher had discussed the sale of helicopters for mining operations in Sudan. Mann may be the most direct link between Thatcher and the coup plot. In the early 1990s, the Eton...
Other chapters show Catherine joined by her friends Nick, the defensively macho user/dealer, and Alex, the cute junkie rent boy, as they shoot up, go to clubs and wrestle with the complications of a world where truth blends with fiction and fantasy with reality. At one point Alex flirts with a boy who turns out to be a girl but who says she isn't. Who knows the truth? But in the end, suggest the book, does it matter? Even the illustrations by Ted Naifeh, using an unusual palette of black, gray and bronze, strike a harmonic discord between...
During the “tell us about your offense” portion of his presentation, Estes went into great detail about his stellar running back Nick Hartigan, last year’s league-leading rusher. “He’s very superstitious,” Estes said. “He hugs every offensive lineman before the game, he has to sit next to the same guy on the bus and he wears the same T-shirt he’s worn since high school. It stinks. I don’t think he ever washes...
...month had to pull from the floor a bill popular with business to limit class actions because of a flurry of Democratic amendments. The defeat of the gay-marriage amendment--which couldn't muster even a majority, much less the two-thirds needed--was another embarrassment. Frist press secretary Nick Smith blames the legislative failures on "Democrats more concerned about a political message in an election year." But if the legislative record doesn't improve after the Senate returns from its August recess, Frist could be facing trouble. --By Douglas Waller