Word: ratting
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Thank you, Molly Ivins, for expressing your suspicion that "cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude." For years, I have tried to counter those who say peace of mind can cure cancer. Ivins came through with a great comeback! MARILYN ERICKSON Springfield, Mass...
...your article "Tehran's Game," about what the Iranian government is up to these days [WORLD, Feb. 4]: People here in Iran do not necessarily fall into the two categories of hard-liner (conservative) and pro-Western (reformist). There are those who smell a rat in respect to both factions. The majority of Iranians are fed up with the demagogues and yearn for true democracy in our country. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Tehran...
Meet Maxx, an 18-year-old graphic designer. He's super-hip, never smiles, has a pierced right ear and sports a few tattoos. A skate-rat, he wears low-rise shorts (to show off his boxers) and DC shoes. Oh, and he's 30 cm tall. And made out of plastic. But Maxx isn't just another Ken or G.I. Joe doll. Maxx has attitude?and a cult following. So does his 31-year-old Hong Kong creator Michael Lau, whose original, street-savvy figures have molded him into a hot icon among the most unlikely doll collectors imaginable...
...existence of an organized South American escape network codenamed Odessa has been suspected for decades. Goñi, after five years' quarrying in almost-forgotten archives in Argentina, the U.S. and a number of European countries, has discovered exactly how and why the rat-run was set up. Goñi reveals with forensic precision how the Vatican and the Catholic Church hierarchy in Argentina colluded to protect thousands of Croatian fascists wanted for acts of genocide. He also details how Swiss officials cooperated with a secret office set up in Bern by Perón's agents to smuggle...
Another thing you get as a cancer patient is a lot of football-coach patter. "You can beat this; you can win; you're strong; you're tough; get psyched." I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing. The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer...