Word: nosed
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Like Pinocchio's when he lies, big Brother's nose grows ever longer - the better, seemingly, to sniff out terrorism and other serious crimes across Europe. In response to pleas by law- enforcement agencies and - particularly since Sept. 11 - the U.S. government, European legislatures have approved greater snooping powers. As the trend continues, however, there is growing concern among civil libertarians, politicians and others about the degree to which such laws are necessary, practical or consistent with fundamental human-rights guarantees. Alarm bells began to sound in late May when the European Parliament amended the E.U.'s telecommunications framework legislation...
...Brokaw [is] NBC's Mr. Clean, an experienced journalist with the snub nose and boyish good looks of the class president, the boy most likely to succeed...Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer...[His] problem is certainly not laziness. Married to his college girlfriend, a former Miss South Dakota, he was NBC's White House correspondent for three years. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Manhattan. He often jogs four miles in Central Park before he leaves for the office at 5 a.m., and recently he has taken...
...What is age, anyway? Mariano Dayan, editor of the Argentine sports paper Ol?, says Batistuta's sharpshooting skills are innate. "He has the nose, the instinct. He was born with it and will die with it." And just to show the world that the years haven't sated his appetite, Batistuta bagged four goals in the second half of a warm-up game against J-League champions Kashima Antlers. O.K., so Kashima's defense isn't exactly world-class but it was good enough to neutralize, for the entire first half, a certain Hernan Crespo...
...healthy reminder that it's often people who shun the limelight--strong-willed people with more guts than glamour--who force themselves to step up and speak out when everyone else is keeping quiet. She dresses simply and wears large spectacles that have a habit of sliding down her nose. She takes her lunch to work every day and often arrives long before any of her co-workers. "She goes the extra mile on everything," says Larry Brubaker, a retired agent and former colleague. "Coleen always looks stressed. She is very high energy." In her letter, she comes...
...dolls. Slim Shady is the raging fantasy id, a nightmare projection of overprotective parents and the devil on the shoulder of teenage rebels. Eminem, meanwhile, functions as the voice of present-tense reality. He's the rapper who has run-ins with the law, an unraveling marriage and a nose for politics. At the wounded core is Marshall Mathers, a drippy kid plagued by insecurities...