Word: rat
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...Should I rat out the student who copies my economics problem or punch his Final Club...
...been living in Israel for almost 14 years. I saw and felt the fear of the Gulf War in 1991. It was awful. In such a war, when you feel like a hunted rat, never being able to fight back, there are no heroes, no matter what they tell you afterward. Should a new war break out, Saddam's remnant Scuds will certainly fly again toward Israel. And this time they will carry bioweapons. Saddam and his fellow dictators don't deserve pity. There is much truth in the saying that every nation gets the government it deserves. The poor...
...a/k/a ?Man Behind the Sun.? In this 1988 mondo-docudrama from Taiwanese director Mou Tunfei (T.R. Mous), Japanese scientists experiment sadistically on animals and humans. What gave the picture pariah status was its four-minute sequence of a live cat being thrown to and devoured by a swarm of rats. No stunt doubles were used in the making of this feline Chinese torture-chamber story. Even for a culture whose cuisine embraces dog, monkey and ants, and whose calendar pays homage to the rat every 12 years, ?Man Behind the Sun? Went Too Far. Something had to be done, Hong...
...father was an expert in vine management--the pruning, spacing, grape thinning and irrigating that influence the quality of the grapes and the taste of the wine. As a young boy, Jon cleared weeds between the vines. He later went to work at the Callaway winery as a "cellar rat," cleaning tanks, moving barrels, stacking bottles and sometimes working 19-hr. days during the busy crush season. "By high school," he recalls, "I swore I was going to get out of the wine business...
...very smart person once pointed out that if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat. Probably a very rich, well-connected rat, which is much more than my current path of sitting with a pencil will bring. But being the python that plucks the guilt strings of the rat is always fun. As is being the python that eats the rat in a surprise, late-life attack...