Word: cockroaches
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...Juggling three mobile phones, Reinado gives orders, takes calls from journalists, and snipes at East Timor's government. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is "just a cockroach," he says with a laugh. "He tried to kill me. But I never hide. They know where to find me. I'm waiting for them...
...convinced you that Harvard Square is falling to pieces, we give you exhibit A, the return of the talking Sovereign Bank video screen. We thought some praiseworthy Robin Hood had stuck one to corporate America, breaking the screen for good, but, unfortunately, the video screen is like a cockroach in a Dunster bathroom. It just keeps coming back. For those living under a rock—why haven’t you thrown that rock through the video display—the bank has virtually imprisoned a multi-ethnic band of salespeople behind a pane of glass...
...André Brink might. He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned. And in his latest, Praying Mantis, which appeared August, South Africa's leading writer in Afrikaans harks back to the 18th and 19th centuries for a conscience-stricken novel about Cupido Cockroach, a character who despite his colorful name is based on a real historical figure. After a hell-raising youth, Cupido converts to Christianity and becomes the first "Hottentot", or Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where...
...officers), to his gradual elimination of independent media outlets. But the Chechen conflict has been Putin’s most dramatic—dramatically horrific—failure. With the confidence of a cowboy and the sophistication of a schoolyard bully, Putin favors using a tank to crush a cockroach. Throughout the war, calls for moderation and respect for basic human rights have been dismissed as unreasonable restraints on Russia’s ability to achieve a long-term solution...
...inner and girls would be more attracted to me if I were an opt-outer. I had a recent conversation with a Teaching Fellow who said he would opt-out of giving me a decent grade on a paper, and a recent run in with a cockroach who had decided to opt-into my sock drawer...