Word: strays
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...lined with rust-mottled Proton sedans and boxy concrete houses, and wedged into the forested hills above the Malaysian port city of Johor Bahru, where the Anwar family has been prominent in politics since Malaysia's independence 50 years ago. Shaded by droopy banana trees, and crisscrossed by stray cats creeping through chain-link fences, the landscape lies somewhere between a sleepy kampong, or Malay village, and a soulless American suburb. "There is no culture around," Zakii says...
...other hand, candidates with steadfast principles from which they are never willing to stray can be considered ideologues. Typified by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), this candidate places his or her abstract beliefs above any pragmatic concerns. In the case of Paul, he has such a profound distaste for the federal government and its role in our lives and in the lives of others around the world that he supports withdrawal from the United Nations and NATO, wants to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Education, Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, the Interstate Commerce...
...Faust’s office in Massachusetts Hall. An Ovimbundu walking stick from Angola, a ceremonial ladle from Liberia, a Hunkpapa Sioux staff from the Great Plains of the Dakotas, and an impressionist painting by Milton Avery, entitled “Still Life with Woman,” all stray from the more traditional Western art that former Harvard presidents have used to decorate the room...
...years in jail and $20,000 in fines. The reward for nailing the Pinery's deer slayer: $10,000. "Folks are concerned," says Joe Narracci, president of the local homeowner's association. "Who knows when they could be sitting out on their deck and get hit with a stray bullet ... Can you imagine that happening to a child...
...packed houses even two months after its release, and "Chak De India," a Punjabi phrase meaning "Go India!" has become a trendy catchphrase across the country. "Everything about the film is different," says well-known film critic Vinayak Chakravorty. "The script, direction, treatment, all stray from the usual formula. The result is a good film, which is what audiences increasingly want...