Word: silver
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...their cruelties to Cinderella, pigeons pluck out their eyes. Which begs the question: Is justice blind or just blinding? 4. The Girl Without Hands – Devils, angels and a little girl whose hands are lopped off by her father populate this story. Her hands are replaced with silver before growing back out of pure piety, but she still names her first-born boy Sorrowful. This whole thing largely just makes me uncomfortable. Not even that scared. Just uncomfortable. —Anna K. Barnet is the incoming Campus Arts Editor. She is frequently uncomfortable...
...seems like there’s a conspiracy to mix education and children’s gifts. This book operates under the theory that if it’s shiny enough, I’ll buy it. Which, to be honest, is a pretty good assumption. Between the silver front and the back cover’s picture of three kids and a pig running through space, I’m ready to get a copy for every single one of my 15 cousins...
Japan's all-time box-office champion is 150 ft. (46 m) tall and has gray skin, opposable thumbs and very bad breath. Since he first lumbered onto the silver screen more than half a century ago, Godzilla has been the star of 27 feature films and countless documentaries, television series, animated cartoons, video games, comic books, T shirts, action figures and lunchboxes. There have been other Japanese movie monsters - lots of them - but only Godzilla has his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame...
...conducting an internal investigation that could leave certain employees subject to a criminal probe. And you thought your boss stunk. "To me, the most interesting question is - are there prosecutors chomping at the bit here?" asks Michael Shapiro, a criminal defense attorney. "Has Mitchell presented them cases on a silver platter?" At his press conference, Mitchell stressed that prosecutors have more important concerns than punishing individual past steroid users, and that there is no evidence that prosecutors would jump on this. But if any of the players are fingered as passing on steroids to their teammates, which could potentially mean...
...gain or lose from a change in the weather. "Now," says Renaud Huck, CME Group's Europe associate director, "we have equity investors, hedge funds, commodity traders and weather traders." For them - and for the financial firms racing to sell products to them - global warming comes with a silver lining...