Word: ratted
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...wasn't a comedian or a singer or a dancer," he says. "I didn't have any of the abilities you need to succeed in this business." It wasn't until 1967, when he became second banana on Joey Bishop's late-night ABC show, that the Rat Packer told Philbin he chose him for his special talent. "I said, 'What is it?'" Philbin recalls. "I was on pins and needles. He said, 'You! You are a great listener!' Which was not the answer I was hoping...
...guilty of "speciesism," the movement's politically correct counterpart to racism. Animals, PETA insists, are no different from people and should be treated accordingly. "There really is no rational reason for saying a human being has special rights," says PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, whose credo is "A rat...
...attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total, and five women have died, although the total number of actual suicides is impossible to document. "Women are locked away in a room with a rope and put under pressure. Or they might be forced to take rat poison," says Nebahat Akkoc, founder of Ka-Mer, a women's rights group in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the south-east. Last week the U.N. sent Yakin Ertürk, rapporteur on violence against women, on a fact-finding mission to investigate the suicides. Some 70 women...
...main reason many liberals don't love him has to do with his battle to contain the city's crime rate. The number of murders this year has nearly doubled last year's count for the same period. There are problems with street robberies and what the cops call rat packers, gangs of kids who beat up people on buses and then head back to school to brag about it. The local jails are sometimes too full to permit arrests for certain crimes. A local television report recently quoted an Oakland police estimate that one-fourth of the city...
...lands they inhabit are richly detailed (thanks to years of research by Lasseter, co-director Joe Ranft and their team) and worlds apart: the NASCAR circuit, where autos and egos collide at 180 m.p.h., and a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community far from the superhighway rat race...