Word: shorn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fugitives. For $100, your beard is shaved off, you get a new set of clothes and smugglers will slip you through the checkpoints on the roads to major Pakistani cities. "These al-Qaeda are willing to pay a lot more?and in dollars," one tribal shopkeeper marvels. But even shorn of his beard and sporting Western gear, it will be hard for bin Laden to avoid detection if he is hiding in Pakistan?now that the ISI has joined the chase...
...Walker is home again, after more than two years abroad: home again in hostile territory. Wednesday night, scores of photographer scrambled over each other to land a shot of the newly-shorn, puffy-faced perp as he stumbled, shackled, toward the Alexandria detention center. We have almost no idea who this guy is, and yet we can't stop talking about him: we speculate about his privileged upbringing, his parents' divorce, his reportedly rocky relationship with his father, Frank Lindh. Two years ago, Walker traveled abroad ostensibly to study Islam, and somewhere along the way he decided it might...
...physical symptoms that cascade from the brain when it is infected by fear are familiar--sweaty palms, accelerated heartbeat, jumpiness, sleeplessness. Frequently, long after the immediate danger has passed, anything that calls the trauma to mind--a picture of the New York City skyline shorn of its two largest shapes; the sight of an airplane gliding by overhead--can give rise to the same symptoms. All too often, the most obvious coping mechanism, if only in the short run, is simple avoidance. And this week a lot of Americans are practicing...
...figure looming over the dais; lawyers and sheriff's deputies at the ready; a line of 72 convicted felons up for sentencing. First comes the lanky forklift driver caught with crystal meth. Then the surly mechanic, father of three, busted for cocaine. And the pale 19-year-old with shorn red hair, on probation for using marijuana, who has failed his latest drug test. He shuffles his feet as his mother looks on, wipes away a tear and mumbles, "I messed...
...Chirac, meanwhile, was rubbing his hands in glee over his suddenly improved prospects. Ever since he unwisely called - and lost - a snap parliamentary election in 1997, he has been a deeply wounded leader, forced to share power with Jospin and shorn of his image as a master strategist. As a result, many analysts were ready to write off Chirac's re-election chances. But the conservatives' unexpectedly strong showing last week points to a real horse race in the 2002 contests...