Word: snaked
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...were scheduled to be questioned about corruption allegations. The dilemma facing President ABDURRAHMAN WAHID: how to deal with a powerful, well-connected family that will stop at nothing to protect itself. The next morning, a confidant of the President's urged that he "cut off the head of the snake"--meaning, take direct action against the Suharto clique. "We are getting closer," Wahid obliquely replied. Then, last Friday, he called for the arrest of Suharto's youngest son Tommy. The police questioned him Saturday but made no arrest, citing lack of evidence...
Despite a string of international championships and honors like "world handball player of the century," Magnus Wislander, captain of the two-time world champion Swedish handball team, may be best known for his other nickname: "the Snake." He's no Richard Hatch, though. In Wislander's case, the title refers to an uncanny ability to slither through a field of opponents toward the goal. To get a grip on the sport, a popular one in Europe, think soccer using hands instead of feet, with some dribbling thrown in. Adept at both offense and defense, Wislander, 36, is 10 years older...
...wait - does that "kind, just, tolerant society" include voodoo priestesses, snake handlers and pagans? Or Hindus or Buddhists or - gasp - atheists? Are Jews and Christians and Muslims, who each have had historical turns as the persecuted minority, now supposed to be the tolerant majority? Are they to band together against the rest, promising to tolerate them but hoping to convert them? Would Bush be a freedom-of-religion president, or freedom-of-major-religion president? If this is pandering - and it is - it's pandering to some very short memories...
...Tennessee state champion in water skiing. Her coach, Glen Birdwell, says Karenna repeatedly skied after hitting the water so hard that she broke her ribs. And during one dry summer, when rattlesnakes began coming into the lake and the male skiers began to scream and scatter, Karenna grabbed a snake and held it aloft, its venomous mouth clamped in her grip...
...lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from stagnant, snake-filled sloughs.The crew will scour 900 miles of river this year, stopping off in towns along the way for daylong community-cleanup festivals that bring out hundreds of local volunteers...