Word: straws
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...Jacky is crashing hard, and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little punk for all the tablets he smoked a few hours ago--tablets she could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with the chatter of half a dozen speed addicts, all pulling apart their Krong Tip packs and sucking in meth smoke through metal pipes. Now that the pills are gone, the fun is gone. And Bing, of course, he's long...
...standard for departmental conflict-of-interest-avoidance when he cut his financial ties to his former firm Goldman Sachs, and Dick Cheney - after a bit of hedging - did the same with his Halliburton holdings, the already iconoclastic O'Neill was starting to give his boss headaches. (Perhaps the final straw was when the Democratic National Committee's web site kicked off a "O'Neill/Alcoa Stock Tracker" last week...
...book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that new parents will grasp at any straw to help deal with life with a newborn. Her book is best read by parents who are so exhausted they won't notice that Hogg, like my aunt Lena, is telling them what they probably already know...
...Jacky is crashing hard and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little punk for all of the tablets he smoked a few hours ago?tablets she could be smoking right now. Back then, she had a dozen tablets packed into a plastic soda straw stuffed down her black, wire-frame bra. The hut was alive with the chatter of a half dozen speed addicts, all pulling apart their Krong Tip packs and sucking in meth smoke through metal pipes. Now that the pills are gone, the fun is gone. And Bing, of course...
...Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum shoppers-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants the legitimacy of many asylum claims to be determined before refugees start moving; he urged the E.U. to set up processing...