Word: stingingly
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...execution chambers, even the most antiseptic, stand as silent, smirking answers that blanch the irony out of St. Paul's question "O Death, where is thy sting?" Death comes in several varieties. It can be incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...
...name Matthew Cunningham wagered $100 in a slot-machine tournament held on a Website called Global Casino. He lost. That, for Global Casino, was the good news. The bad news was that "Cunningham" was employed by the office of Missouri attorney general Jeremiah ("Jay") Nixon as part of a sting operation. Last Friday, in the first case ever against an active Internet gambling concern, a federal-circuit-court judge granted Nixon's request for a permanent injunction barring Global Casino's parent company, Interactive Gaming & Communications (I.G.C.) of Blue Bell, Pa., from taking any more bets from Missouri residents...
...entrap Frank Gifford, you are basically setting out to destroy his marriage." Without engaging in a debate about the Globe's ethics or Gifford's morals, one has to feel a certain sympathy for him. He is having a rather rough spring, with both the Globe's sting operation and the news that his daughter Victoria, from his first marriage, is divorcing Michael Kennedy because Kennedy cheated on her with the family baby-sitter. Gifford surely doesn't deserve to be the subject of so many monologue jokes by Jay Leno and Letterman. Frank has to answer to Kathie...
...Weil's story of the bee-sting cure of an arthritic knee reminded me of my grandmother, who used bee-sting therapy to treat her arthritis. Grandmother was born in 1872 on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and most likely it was there in her early years that she learned some natural cures that have benefited our family ever since. PATRICIA EARL Los Angeles...
...Moscow's former satellites to join the Western alliance, is the most significant foreign policy development since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and has strategic consequences that will be with us for decades. Called the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, the agreement will take the sting out of Russian anger that NATO expansion was going to happen whether Moscow liked it or not. Implemented properly, the pact will soothe, but diplomatic denials not withstanding, it still represents a crushing capitulation for Russia and a diplomatic triumph for Clinton and the Western nations...