Word: killing
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...inclination that's hardly surprising, given the paradoxical love of law and hatred of lawyers intrinsic in Western culture. One of the most famous and oft-repeated lines in Shakespeare's King Henry VI is, "First thing we'll do / let's kill all the lawyers!" Even those considered forward thinkers of their respective eras hold back nothing in expressing their disgust with the profession. Charles Dickens is remembered to have said, "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers," and Benjamin Franklin once noted, "God works wonders now and then: Behold! a lawyer, an honest...
...heart of earnings-announcement season just a few weeks away, the markets found themselves in a pessimistic mood. Investors now have the better part of four days to ask themselves the big questions: Will the news be as bad as we fear? Did Greenspan go too far, and kill our corporate good times? How do I keep my tan from peeling? Tune in after the fireworks...
...taking the pill; women who smoke or have high blood pressure are not good candidates, and unless you are particularly fastidious about taking your pill at the same time every day, you run the risk of pregnancy. But when one considers the fact that an adult could easily kill herself by downing a bottle of something as universally accessible and generally innocuous as aspirin, the argument to keep the pill out of widespread circulation on the basis of its potential health hazards loses most of its steam...
...SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Nonswimming, battered wife Julia Roberts fakes her own death by drowning to escape her sadistic husband. Months later, the widower runs into a woman from Roberts' (secret) swimming lessons. He understands the ruse, tracks her down in her lovely, landlocked new life and tries to kill her. The moral? Swimming lessons = death...
...Bush camp? Al Gore, who also supports the death penalty, has kept his mouth shut as Bush struggles with this issue, a sure sign the vice president wants nothing to do with the debate. When Gore makes forehead-slapping declarations like "We must be careful not to kill innocent people," he's really saying, "I remember what this did to Mike Dukakis...