Word: skulled
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...This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation ... I'm talking about people having a good time." RUSH LIMBAUGH, conservative American radio talk-show host, comparing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners to alleged hazing rituals at a Yale University secret society...
...enthusiastic response from ethnic areas was especially galling to the generals, because it challenged their long-cherished notion that only the Burmese military can unite the country's disparate ethnic groups. The regime's emphatic response to this rising euphoria was an assault so calculating and sadistic that skull fragments and clumps of bloody hair littered the road where it took place. Suu Kyi was detained with about a hundred of her party members, including elderly deputy Tin Oo; both Suu Kyi and Tin Oo are still under house arrest. The authorities shut NLD offices nationwide, although last week...
Another of Carlson’s shots has only two living figures, dancing awkwardly with two ghosts of Harvard’s past: one student rests a jaunty hand on the bald pate of the Faculty Room’s bust of Benjamin Franklin, while another’s skull seems in the process of being tickled by the two-dimensional knuckles of the bygone Harvard don whose portrait hangs above...
PRESIDENT BUSH AND SENATOR KERRY BOTH WENT TO YALE, AND BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF SKULL AND BONES. IS AMERICAN POLITICS BECOMING MORE ELITIST? No. Skull and Bones is becoming less elitist...
...Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country of My Skull (Vintage), which chronicles South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was recently made into a movie starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food...