Word: slacked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Palestinian sniper in the West Bank city of Hebron last week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry disseminated the picture to the media, with her parents' consent and the rationalization of putting a face to Palestinian violence. She lies on her side, her dead eyes half-open, her blackened lips slack. A trickle of blood beneath her head stains her cheerfully patterned sheets. The photo is intimate, scrapbook-like; you do not ever want to see it, if only because it is nigh impossible to look at without imagining being the one taking...
...Harvard will need production out of the entire order this weekend, not just Carter. If that is to happen, usual contributors like Mager (.219), catcher Brian Lentz (.193), and first baseman Josh San Salvador (.250) will have to pick up the slack. As a team, Harvard is hitting just .248 on the year—a mark even sicklier than its Ivy-worst .258 clip from a year...
...behavior his coach just won't tolerate. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson said his 22-year-old superstar was bored with the team's offense and a potentially divisive force in the locker room, but perhaps more ominously, a slack reader. Jackson assigned the Italian-raised Bryant Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres because "Kobe's a real Mediterranean kid," said Jackson. "I thought the book would be a good look at the culture he's attached to. It's a beautiful book. Tragic. But he didn't like...
...thought he was the prince of Belgium," I ask Steve Taylor. "Yuh, he is. He just likes interviewing people too." Since Britain's current generation of royals includes media-hounds such as Fergie and Prince Edward (though he asks interviewers to call him "Mr. Windsor"), I cut him some slack...
...most. "My hair is graying because I've seen so many business cycles," Koogle joked to TIME last October. But he also displayed alarming signs of true believerism about web advertising. Disappearing dotcoms made no difference to his bottom line, he said, since traditional companies would pick up the slack. And "the majority of ad spending will be concentrated on the big players"--meaning Yahoo and AOL. (AOL and TIME are part of AOL Time Warner...