Word: tamers
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Just last Friday, Mandela lauded French President Jacques Chirac for opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq--and that was one of Mandela's tamer shots during what has been a nine-month barrage of criticism. In January, Mandela called Bush a "President who has no foresight, who cannot think properly," and accused him of "wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." Mandela has also accused the U.S. of ignoring the U.N. because it is led by a black man, and has repeatedly called the U.S. a "threat to world peace." During a visit to Ireland last week, he told...
...elephants have been domesticated by Ama Kong, Vietnam's most famous tamer...
...Other, tamer questions included asking participants to bring back trinkets from a Beacon Hill watering hole made famous by television...
...award Steve Martin, the evening's host, a silver star (make that diamond; it's the 75th) for some "A" material in the opening monologue, and for deflecting both the solemnity of the occasion and the political passions simmering in the crowd. The ever-cool star was a lion tamer with the whip of irony...
When I seek a less unsettling read, I switch to the Crimson’s tamer fare, which even when disagreeable is at least of my historical epoch. But in past months its value as a respite from absurdity has declined, as news from “The Real World” is dominated by the latest escalatory tactic in this prelude to a war that can only be described as “crass and libidinous...