Word: parakeets
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...That diagnosis seemed like sentimental nonsense to people who noted how well Hasan matched the classic model of the lone, strange, crazy killer: the quiet and gentle man who formed few close human attachments but, reported the New York Times, used to chew up food and let his pet parakeet eat it from his mouth; when he rolled over during a nap and accidentally crushed it to death, he visited the bird's grave for months afterward...
...morning, and she has already e-mailed her teaching fellow. Her 5-year-old daughter’s parakeet appears to be dying...
...Parakeets aren’t meant to be cut in half. But that didn’t stop a young Michael C. Mitnick ’06 from trying to steal his older sister’s parakeet for a magic trick. “I thought there was no good reason why I couldn’t try to puncture...
...down in a 100-yard-long trash-strewn column. Many had only the clothes on their backs. Some had a bit of money stashed away in pockets, shoes and handbags or a few vital medications. Others had braved the rising waters with a beloved pet. A green parakeet chirped in a white cage on the tarmac. A lanky woman stood next to two cat carriers with her teenage son. Several dogs nosed through the debris, their leashes dragging on the ground behind them...
Maybe that's because some of the most memorable story lines emerging from profiles and biographies and especially G.O.P. ads--the tales of his attending a Swiss boarding school, teaching his parakeet to speak French, allegedly flaunting his initials, J.F.K., as a politically precocious and impossibly earnest high school student--do not serve him well, especially in a race against a candidate like George W. Bush. Voters know where Bush comes from, in a way few generations have known about their Presidents. They knew the brand before they knew the man himself, got to watch his family in the White...