Word: robber
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...exactly that: a little bit of magic to make them even tougher. Many Thais believe monks can pass on a bit of their power through amulets, prayer beads or, in the case of Wat Bang Phra, tattoos. Get a magical tattoo and you may be able to stop a robber's bullet with your teeth?or so goes an apocryphal tale of a now legendary bus driver. Then get another one the next year, because you never know how much protection you might need. Somchai, a former soldier, says he once stepped on a land mine at the Cambodian border...
...suspect has not been apprehended, the spokesperson added, and he said he could not comment on whether or not the robber left with any money...
...frightened for our domestic security and financial safety when the White House holds secret talks to protect the robber barons who pillage us. Are our elected leaders protecting the American people, or are they only looking after their friends in Big Business? RANDY E. HENDERSON Romney, W.Va...
...political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored and feared to an uncommon degree. These flaws are dwarfed, however, by the real subject...
...political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored and feared to an uncommon degree. These flaws are dwarfed, however, by the real subject...