Word: secrete
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...movie is at pains to prove it has no color prejudice. It give us one blue creature who's benign (Kelsey Grammer's hirsute Hank McCoy, head of the Ministry of Mutant Affairs) and one blue meanie (Rebecca Romijn's Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters...
...mini-riot erupted just as a United Nations panel monitoring compliance with the U.S.-ratified "Convention Against Torture" called on Washington to close Gitmo. The panel also urged the U.S. to ban interrogation techniques that critics have described as torture and to stop the secret transfer of prisoners to other countries...
...stubbornly loyal. Those qualities animate the newly translated Purity of Blood. Alatriste is hired to help an aging father free his daughter, a nun, from the clutches of a well-connected priest who is using the convent as his private seraglio. The old man and his family have a secret: as Christian descendants of a converted Jew in anti-Semitic times, they lack "purity of blood" and soon become targets of the Inquisition. Alatriste too comes under suspicion, and the blood, pure and otherwise, begins to flow. Like the other Alatriste books, Purity of Blood bristles with adventure and swordplay...
...elite prep schools a la Eton. Soon the time will come for standardization in the quest for the elusive Ithaca: elite colleges. To the application recipe, add a pinch of both “productive” extracurriculars and “useful” summers. Always remember the secret ingredient: “It should look good on paper...
...unique grip on Sicilian society. Across the region, and stretching up to Rome, the Mafia has long been adept at playing politics - applying both hard and soft tactics. Over the years, gangsters have intermittently gunned down crusading lawmakers, priests and magistrates, but more often Cosa Nostra looks to forge secret (and peaceful) links with the political establishment. The most shocking allegation of such collusion was, in fact, embodied in an alleged kiss. Italy's former seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti faced a series of trials in the 1990s in which one witness claimed that he had exchanged a kiss...