Word: wristing
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...dignity of the Jewish faith that I was raised in. Abramoff is a poseur, disgracing and shaming other Jews by his deceitful actions. Sharon Zeidan Los Angeles It is high time that congress be held accountable to the laws it is sworn to protect. The old slap-on-the-wrist attitude about those who betray the public trust is in part to blame for this disgrace. Another reason is the never-ending need for politicians to raise money. Voters must demand meaningful campaign-finance reform. Elected officials found guilty of accepting bribes belong in jail like all other crooks. They...
...peace is the key to avoiding a full-fledged slump. A slump?that downward spiral that only gets worse the harder you try?is familiar to even amateur athletes. For golfers, it can start with the yips, an uncontrollable twitch of the arm or an involuntary snap of the wrist at just the wrong moment. For a pitcher, it's the strike zone over home plate that suddenly begins to jump around. For the basketball player, it's the hoop that has inexplicably shrunk...
...WRIST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN Tired of generic greetings, a Catholic couple in recent weeks sold some 25,000 "Just Say Merry Christmas" wristbands, at $2 each
Hardy slips a stunning silver-and-diamond pavé cuff off his wife's wrist and holds it up to the light. It looks as if some silver-fingered Midas brushed against a bamboo trellis covered in climbing flowers. ?In 200 years,? he says, ?you will see this on the block at Sotheby's.? He is not speaking of the design but of the exquisite craftsmanship. One of the great luxuries of working in Bali is the ability to draw from a tradition of jewelry making that goes back thousands of years?and the ability to lure...
...masculinity frames an urgent sensitivity; he gives off the air of being willing to punch someone but only to mask his own pain. He's the kind of guy who has his mom's, sister's and two half sisters' first initials tattooed in Gothic letters on his wrist. ("It spells KAOS, but upside down it looks like Sony," he notes wryly.) But will young girls warm to his vulnerability when it's drawn out by another guy? "I don't think Ennis could be labeled as gay," says Ledger. "Without Jack Twist, I don't know that he ever...