Word: reared
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...still imperious British came back to America and captured Washington in 1814, burning the Capitol and the White House before leisurely returning to their ships in Annapolis. The worst insult may have come from British Rear Admiral George Cockburn, one of the commanders of the 150 seamen who skillfully torched the city, as the Federal Government's bureaucrats, including President James Madison and his Cabinet, ran like rabbits for the open country in Maryland and Virginia. Before ordering his men to set the building on fire, Admiral Cockburn told them to choose souvenirs from among the trivial things...
...precious little about any of his other policy proposals. The question is whether Bush's proposals are really skewed towards the rich, as the Democrats like to complain. If so, the failure of supply-side that characterized the Reagan era and contributed to a massive federal budget deficit could rear its ugly head again...
...girl, Jessica LeAnn Taylor, a junior high school cheerleader who died in a car accident Oct. 16, 1998, on the way to a homecoming football game outside her hometown of Mexia, Texas. A friend of Taylor's mother was driving that day, and as the tread on the left-rear Firestone ATX tire allegedly peeled off like a banana, the Ford Explorer SUV veered left and rolled over...
...turn up in unexpected places. The funeral professionals' discussion board on casketstores.com is oddly riveting, with talk ranging from how to improve public opinion about funeral directors to how to ensure that a casket is airtight. The flight attendants' site on Insidetheweb.com has the feel of a late-night, rear-of-the-plane gabfest, on topics like whether it's O.K. to accept a $100 tip from a passenger (consensus: no) to an attendant's gripping first-person account of her first emergency landing. ("As I strapped myself into my jumpseat, I remember thinking that I was so glad that...
...single biggest influence on dancing in today's videos is Michael Jackson. Most clips follow the format he perfected in his epic 1983 video Thriller: a single dancer out front, with a phalanx of dancers in the rear echoing his steps. Still, Landon, Henson and Robinson have all conjured up moments of vibrant originality. Henson's work tends to be punchy and blunt, Landon's playfully carnal, Robinson's fluidly urban. In the video (You Drive Me) Crazy, Henson has a captivating phrase in which Spears rotates on a chair, her legs splayed, projecting both sensuality and repose. Fatima...