Word: sleight
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...International Festival of Women in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Bezreh transformed herself into a saran-wrapped mummy that chanted, “I’ve got something that you’ll really like.” She then gave birth to a baby doll with scissors and saran wrap sleight of hand...
...Swapping information with police around the world, Shrestha concluded that he had been bested by a brilliant criminal mind, a man who could speak seven languages and appear amenable and plausible in all of them. Sometimes Sobhraj had slipped sedatives into drinks, say police, but mostly such sleight of hand was unnecessary: young travelers warmed to him, shared his lodgings, and swallowed medicine willingly after he convinced them it would prevent headaches or stomach trouble. In reality, say police, it was poison. According to what Shrestha calls "the compulsions of his hobby," Sobhraj is then alleged to have strangled, drowned...
...transferred $1.2 billion in federal funds already earmarked for local law enforcement to a similar program with a different name. Through some slick accounting and fuzzy math, Bush made it seem like this $1.2 billion transfer was a $1.2 billion increase in funding for homeland security. After this fiscal sleight of hand, the President provided only 71 percent of the funding increase he had promised. The Administration’s failure to provide adequate funding has put serious strain on local departments. As one Massachusetts police officer told the Boston Globe, the same officers are now expected to do more...
...city's funkiest bars and restaurants crowd this area, some in renovated colonial villas. True, there's been plenty of recent buzz about Xintiandi, a Disneyfied version of Ye Olde Shanghai that houses the city's poshest restaurants and bars in gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial splendor at Face, located on the verdant grounds of the Ruijin Guesthouse. Face combines two restaurants and a sumptuous bar in an ornate mansion built...
...biggest changes to business oversight in 60 years, creating harsh penalties for fraud and an independent board to regulate accounting. But the legislation is silent on one controversial accounting trick, treating stock options as expenses when companies do their taxes but not when they report profits. It's a sleight-of-hand, critics say, at the heart of many recent corporate scandals. "CEOs have paid themselves huge amounts through stock options to wreck their companies," says Peter Montagnon, Investment Manager at the Association of British Insurers. "It would hit a number of companies, but those options should be charged...