Word: ramrodded
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...colored umbrellas, are ranged across a grassy field. Eight people wearing sashes striped in yellow, blue and green - the national colors of Rwanda - sit behind a wooden table. There's a festive appearance to the proceedings that the words of Augustin Ntirushwamaboko belie. The 38-year-old farmer stands ramrod straight as he describes dragging a Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with the club, he didn't die," Ntirushwamaboko explains. "I had an ax. I hit him with the blunt side on his head." Ntirushwamaboko...
Thursday—The Ramrod...
...congregate to schmooze, sing, and party. This is one place where the only thing a girl has to worry about is whether there will be any other girls present at all. The karaoke is the sideshow to the main attraction: The Machine, the club within the depths of the Ramrod. If you feel like a change of scenery or some racy karaoke, come to The Ramrod for an unforgettable night...
...Kerry won the debate on Bush's favorite intangible: the appearance of strength. The President, who was so comfortable through three debates against Al Gore, appeared "annoyed," as Fox News's Brit Hume put it. Actually, it was worse than that: Bush seemed the lesser man. Kerry stood ramrod straight and preternaturally calm. Bush squirmed and grimaced behind his lectern. When he leaned down and in to make a point, he appeared to be ducking for cover. As the debate wore on, his pauses lengthened--several times he had that lost look on his face, the look he had when...
...with the hand and foot on one side of the body moving in sync. (In normal locomotion, people swing the right arm forward with the left leg.) Out on the track, Suetsugu's stealthy ninja stride makes the traditional runners look like a bunch of Forrest Gumps with ramrod-straight backs, high-kicking knees and arms churning like something out of a cartoon. The technique obviously works: in addition to his 200-m bronze last year, Suetsugu took a surprise silver in the 100-m at a Grand Prix meet in Zagreb in June, ahead of England's Darren Campbell...