Word: rayed
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...Achewood. It's about a loose community of creatures--cats, a bear, a squirrel, a baby otter, a few robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes to hell, where he's forced to drive a 1982 Subaru Brat and gets drunk with legendary bluesman Robert Johnson at a Best Western. This kind of thing never happens to Garfield. The characterization in Achewood is so thorough it's almost novelistic, to the point where...
...There's still time for another high-profile candidate to enter the race, perhaps lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat and younger brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. He lost a bid to replace New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin last year. But the state's scrambled demographics could complicate matters: Hurricane Katrina cut the population of New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold, by half. And while many of those voters, mostly African-American, have resettled elsewhere in Louisiana, the dispersal will make it harder for Democrats to cobble together the coalition of black and Cajun votes that have traditionally helped them...
...surprise, more than half-a-dozen individuals responded, from singers to keyboardists to bassists to guitarists with massive Stevie Ray Vaughn fetishes. We planned to meet this past Saturday, in Lowell’s “music practice room...
...have testified to the IRS illustrate financial machinations that appear to have Gerber at their center and, at the very least, paint a portrait of a prestigious university shoddily run. Indeed, the school's officials and its legal counsel openly contradict one another. The vice chancellor for finance, Ray Newman, contends that doctors are due compensation for work at Charity Hospital (which produces revenues for the university of $20 million to $30 million in payments), even as general counsel John Beal says the physicians merit no payment: "They provide the service as part of our community-service obligation." Still, Tulane...
...Dubai initiative, the possibility of outright attack is “fairly high.” “With each country being tough on the other side, showing a growling, uncompromising face, there is a great chance that either side will overreach,” he said. But Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, said that Congressional skepticism, President Bush’s low popularity, and international opposition would restrain American aggression. “The chances of attack are almost nonexistent,” he said. Moderated by Graham T. Allison...