Word: ring
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...certainly its slightly gray rectitude. The tiny country of 10 million is a wildly improbable candidate to be the epicenter of scandal in Europe. But since the summer, it has been rocked by a series of lurid revelations. They include tales of an exceptionally repellent child-sex torture-murder ring, the arrest of a former minister for the Mafia-style political assassination of a rival, official corruption and bribery, all topped off by law-enforcement bungling on a grand scale. Public anger and disgust are so high that when citizens' groups last month organized a demonstration to demand a government...
...problem is, he's an official, and there are allegations of pedophilia. Those are the two most sensitive topics in Belgium right now," says political scientist Kris Deschouwer. Sensitive scarcely begins to describe it. The country is still shaken by the discovery last August of a child-kidnapping ring that preyed on young girls. A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old who had been abducted and raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city of Charleroi. Police dug up the bodies of four other girls...
People actually got paid, that is, for taking a survey to decide that "Building a Bridge to the 21st Century" has more of a ring to it than "Building a Bridge to a Second Term." When you think about that, it's a wonder those Indonesians didn't ask for their money back...
...race for Undergraduate Council president got a little more crowded yesterday as two veterans of campus politics threw their hats into the ring...
However, while the cliche may ring true, it cannot begin to tell the whole story of how well the Crimson played...