Word: pureness
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...only thing more amazing than seeing a pure passer in the NBA is seeing one take the Nets to the finals, which is what Kidd did last week as they eliminated the Boston Celtics in six gritty games in the Eastern Division finals. The Nets have been more laden with lameness than any other team, including the Los Angeles Clippers. The Nets play in the country's most unfairly mocked state, a few miles from the losing yet celebrity-oozing Knicks, and they have been the Bermuda Triangle for draft picks...
...shrouded corpse labors its way out to the middle of the river. Pregnant women, holy men and children, among others, are thought to be clean. Needing no purification by fire, they are simply weighted down and lowered into the river's embrace. Closer to shore, one of the pure bodies has escaped its mid-river moorings and bobs among a group of children who pay it no heed. Varanasi is not for the fainthearted, but for those willing to risk a little discomfort, it offers a raw and intimate glimpse into the Indian way of life...
...would build a dirty nuke would do so because it's far, far easier than to build a nuclear bomb. It's unlikely to kill 10,000 people, but any bomb that killed people and set off Geiger counters would terrify a whole city. It's ultimately a pure terror weapon...
...Larry Merchant probably has it right. Tyson-Lewis may have been unacceptable to most places on the established landscape of professional boxing, but it is pure opportunity for an up-by-the-bootstraps place like Memphis. As Merchant so aptly concedes, "A big fight is good for boxing. Even if it's boring...
...works include Morality, Descartes: the Project of Pure Enquiry, Shame and Necessity and Making Sense of Humanity...