Word: saws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deal, you might think. Tuxedos are uncomfortable, it was a warm May evening and Harvard students are working themselves to the bone during spring reading period. It's true that none of these detail seems outstanding at first glance, and when I first saw the picture I simply shrugged off my miserable looks to bad timing...
From the first years that Treasury Department agents were assigned full time to protect an American President--Theodore Roosevelt--discretion has been a working principle. Early in the century one of them wrote that unless they ignored presidential confidences that they saw or heard on the job, the Commander in Chief would never let them close enough to provide protection, and so a Secret Service agent, he wrote, must be "deaf, dumb and blind...
...deserted Phnom Penh, he was obsessed with his own safety, regularly changing houses in paranoid addiction to secrecy. He trusted very few comrades for long: he had 16,000 Khmer Rouge cadres tortured to death in the infamous Tuol Sleng interrogation center--"strings of traitors," as he saw them, who had to be "burned out." Yet when confronted with this by Thayer, Pol Pot claimed he had never heard of Tuol Sleng and showed no sign of remorse. "I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look...
...great talent, which is undeniable," says Jodie Foster, who directed Downey in Home for the Holidays. "People who know him really feel for him." Others express similar support. "He's one of the most remarkable actors of his generation," declares In Dreams director Neil Jordan, who last saw Downey when he was released briefly to re-record some dialogue for the film. "He's hardworking, consistently concentrated. My perception is that the more he works in rewarding jobs and expands his horizons, the less chance he'll get into trouble. I'd work with him again in a minute...
...asked my five-year-old son and his four-year-old sister what they would do if they saw a gun. In unison, they quoted the N.R.A.'s educational mascot, Eddie Eagle: "Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult." The fact that Eddie Eagle's words were remembered by my youngsters disproves the ugly picture the media often paint of the N.R.A. Eddie can help many parents to speak with their youngsters about this disturbing subject. BARBARA ROCHE Watchung...