Word: scorpion
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Considering the evidence, harsh sentences had been expected. The commander of the group and one other soldier received the maximum penalty, 20 years, while a Scorpion who had confessed got 13 years. The man taped mocking the boy got only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased...
Renowned for its suspect scorpion bowls, the Kong is looking legit—or, it’s trying to. After 53 years as an icon of late-night revelry, the Hong Kong restaurant of Harvard Square is rolling out a new look. But you can’t find it behind the restaurant/comedy club/lounge/dance club’s faded jade façade or underneath its signature red-and-yellow electric sign. You have to go beyond Mass. Ave to its second address: www.hongkongharvard.com. Having landed its corner of the World Wide Web early last fall, the Kong...
Today we fret about the growing partisanship and scurrilous sensationalism of the press, but our media are simply reverting to mid--19th century form. Nearly all dailies back then were extravagantly partisan, and the "sporting papers"--the Scorpion, the Sunday Flash, the Weekly Rake--provided lurid, low-down, gossipy coverage of celebrities and sex and crime...
...work producing hundreds of kites for use in China on the set of the highly anticipated adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Agha says he treats every kite he is making for the movie as a work of art, marking each with his name and signature scorpion image. Even though few of the kites will be used in competition, he incorporates in their manufacture the techniques he has honed through years of flying and fighting--using precision to curve the bamboo frame, creating invisible joints and employing a method for impregnating cotton twine with ground glass, the better...
...Kong: fine for scorpion bowls and chicken dumplings, but an unlikely place to go for intellectual stimulation. Until now. Last Monday, Charlie P. Pierce, a staff reporter for The Boston Globe’s Sunday Magazine, author, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s “It’s Only a Game” discussed his newest book, “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything,” at Hong Kong restaurant in collaboration with Harvard Book Store and The Boston Phoenix. “We wanted to hold...