Word: punch
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...have some experience in resisting autocrats. After all the years of fighting Milosevic, it's in our blood." Otpor won its reputation for bravely taunting Milosevic's authoritarian regime by parading a giant effigy of the Serbian strongman in a prison suit and charging people a dinar to punch it. Some 9,000 activists were jailed or detained. Since then, the group has hooked up with student protesters in Belarus, Georgia and Ghana, among other countries. Ukraine's "Pora was not created by Otpor," Sikman says. "Pora is a homegrown movement that existed before they came...
Pretty smart for a universal remote, the 676 relies on a Web wizard to get you set up, instead of making you punch in those annoying codes. Three changeable color plates are included. logitech.com...
...important in movies, and we've lost that." Thanks to Marber's invigorating wit, "Closer" restores the need to pay attention to what's said on screen. It's been some time at the movies since we've used those delicate organs, our ears, for processing much more than punch lines and gunfire...
...against Murder Inc. and Benzino were great for the same reason. Now, with Encore, he’s all alone again, and at times, he sounds like he’s trying to squeeze blood out of rocks, reaching desperately for inspiration, or at the very least, a decent punch line...
...graduates will have no special tailgate to call their own. With female social clubs being such a recent development—and a very small development at that—Harvard women lack the social connections of their male peers and former classmates. As the newly chosen survivors of punch season and their socially elite predecessors mingle for the first time, perhaps they will all notice—as indeed many on campus have—that they are perpetuating a culture long since condemned by the general public. More importantly, we hope they will realize that the most direct...