Word: souvenir
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...Pistol-Packin' President In "A Saddam Souvenir," you reported that President Bush is keeping in the White House the pistol that Saddam was clutching when he was captured [June 7]. There is something incredibly disturbing and distasteful about the President's proudly showing off such spoils of war. His pride in displaying Saddam's gun is further proof that this war was part personal vendetta. Donna Rochester Tucson...
...Apart from the fact that the only place for that souvenir is a war museum, there is another side to the story: the frightening reality that the leader of the free world has turned out to be a boy with a toy. Dick W. van Donselaar Tiel, the Netherlands...
...none of Penn’s starters cracked double digits. But the Quakers subs played well beyond their talent, nailing clutch shot after clutch shot to shut down the Crimson comeback drive and winning 73-72, before one of their mothers tried to steal my game notes as a souvenir...
...Israeli collaborator. The drone arrived at Salama's workroom in two pieces: one part was clean but the second was booby-trapped. The explosion killed six cell members and sent Salama to the hospital for months. The wire I spotted in his ear is a souvenir: a hearing aid for his badly damaged sense of sound. When I noted that at 32, he had practically reached retirement age for a militant, Salama firmly shook his head. "The happiest day of my life was when I went back to this war after I was wounded," he said...
...Gareth, the foodboy, works in a hotel kitchen in Llanparc, Wales. As the story begins he walks along a lonely mountain road carrying a sack filled with a souvenir snow globe and a steak of raw Welsh lamb. He's going to meet his friend Ross, and feed him. Ross hasn't been himself lately, as we see through a series of flashbacks. We first meet Ross, a big guy with a shaved head, at a tent revival in the middle of the town. Ross interrupts the sermon to proselytize his own beliefs - a system he characterizes by saying nothing...