Word: tutting
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...inquiry, which next month will hear testimony from Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. "It was an astonishing episode," says Raymond Langendries, president of the commission. As America's business scandals resonate throughout Europe - triggering a slew of safeguards meant to improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron-style abuses simply couldn't happen on their turf. "Our situation is profoundly different from the American one," says Daniel Bouton, CEO of the French bank Société Generale and head of a corporate governance group...
...First-year proctor James R. Alourde ’98 is constantly scandalized by what he reads in Gossip Guy. “Tut, tut,” he tut-tuts...
...like Brooks' songs for "The Producers." And toward the end of the show he seems to realize he's run out of early-60s musical signatures to filch from. So in the last two songs he steals from 70s retro-rock. "Cooties" is nothing but Steve Martin's "King Tut." The finale, which brings the entire female company together to sing "You Can't Stop the Beat," begins as yet another Spector classic, "River Deep Mountain High," the raids pretty much the entire oeuvre of Jim Steinman, of Meat Loaf notoriety...
...Tut's widow may also provide evidence against Ay. A cuneiform document reports that a letter was sent from an unnamed widowed Egyptian Queen to the Hittite King in what is now Turkey, pleading that one of his sons be sent south to marry her. The writer's fear was that she would otherwise be forced to wed one of her "servants." Ankhesenamen, as onetime Queen, would surely have seen Ay as a servant. Some people, including Cooper and King, believe that an ancient ring bearing her and Ay's names indicates that the two were in fact married...
Additionally, it has never been proved that Ankhesenamen wrote the letter to the Hittite King; some scholars believe the author was not Tut's widow but his father's. Similarly, the ring bearing Ay's and Ankhesenamen's names may indicate little, since in ancient Egypt there were no such things as wedding rings. "The ring merely shows an affiliation," says Eaton-Krauss...