Word: straws
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This is not the "banality of evil," as Hannah Arendt described Eichmann's bureaucratic Final Solution. The photographs present, rather, a sort of festivity of evil. Well dressed white people - the men in jaunty straw boaters, the women in pretty Sunday dresses, the children (children!) neat as a pin - are posed as they inspect mutilated and naked black corpses. People have brought picnic baskets. The pictures were sent as postcards through the mail...
...word 37. One of the DiMaggios 38. With 1-Down, television bride 40. Kidnapped monogram 41. Grammy-winning rapper 43. Rene of silents 45. A Berkeley scientist has figured a way to make hydrogen fuel from these 46. He's running on the Green ticket 47. Betamax introducer 48. Straw in the wind...
General Augusto Pinochet's fate had once seemed to hold Chile on a knife edge; now it looks more like a non-event. The former dictator flew home Thursday after Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw ended extradition proceedings on torture charges and said Pinochet was free to leave. But the generalissimo will return to a country no longer in his thrall. When he left Chile in September 1998 it was as self-appointed senator-for-life and a self-satisfied former military ruler who had deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago...
...liberation from the routine, from the drabness of post-graduate life, of a pre-ordained career. "This is the first time in my life that I feel I can do anything I want," says Tamara, lighting a cigarette as she sits with her legs drawn up on a straw beach mat. "I'm not, like, trying to be something...
...nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year low and the summer driving season approaching. And the announcement last week by Kuwaiti and Iranian officials that they'd vote to retain the production cuts at OPEC's March 27 meeting was the final straw in prompting the White House...