Word: semi
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...very much appreciate it if Tony could confect a home-made bomb for him. Instead, with the help of a fellow prisoner (Shaun Toub), Tony constructs a heavily armed metal suit, blasts his way out of the cave and resolves to change his nickname from Merchant of Death to semi-pacific Iron Man. "I have more to offer the world," he says, "than making things blow...
...Port Arthur, a former prison in Australia's island state of Tasmania. Described later by his sentencing judge as a "pathetic social misfit," the 28-year-old then reached into his sports bag and, in the manner that others might pull out a sweater, withdrew two military-style semi-automatic rifles, which he used over the next eight horrifying minutes to kill 35 people - men, women and children - in what remains Australia's worst mass murder...
...focus has been on terrorism, and particularly on Ayro as he rose up the chain of command in al-Qaeda's East African operations. Although reports were sketchy, security sources suspected his involvement in a number of assassinations, including the death of four foreign aid workers in the semi-autonomous Somaliland region in 2003 and 2004, as well as the killing of BBC journalist Kate Peyton in Mogadishu...
...written material. What he could do was draw, and the walls of his home were covered with sketches. In fact, drawing was such an important outlet for young Benton that he named one of the main characters in “Bad Company”—a semi-autobiographical film about the break-up of his first writing partnership—“Drew,” the past tense of “draw.” When he wasn’t drawing, Benton was going with his father to the local movie palace, where?...
...when they wouldn’t keep their mouth shut about the proletariat.At any rate, current students seem to have forfeited Marx and Engels to an even greater degree than their instructors. When, in 1953, Crimson editors got hold of the Ibis that sits atop a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a humor magazine, the natural decision was to send it to the Soviet Union. Who knows what nemesis state would even have it today, or whether we’d have the cajones to send it to them? Kim Jong-Il would probably...