One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.”
He's the slacker of the bunch, and a cross between a sad sack and a prophet.
“I knew it wasn’t about me, a 22-year-old girl from a small town in Tennessee who just wants to help the world. But you can’t help but take it personally.”
Matt Gross is "seeking low-cost high adventure on a 12-week road trip across the United States." His next stop is Tennessee. Can you suggest something?
The CIA acknowledged that the dates of Ms. Wilson’s employment had mistakenly been disclosed, although a spokesman said that did not mean the information was no longer classified.
“Frankly,” said the spokesman, Mark Mansfield, the release of the information in 2006, in response to a query from Ms. Wilson about retirement benefits, was “an honest-to-goodness administrative error.”
The device still lacks the control needed for pro sports or safecracking, but it's an honest-to-goodness bionic arm.
From here on, it’s nothing but “National Bingo Night” (an actual, honest-to-goodness ABC show airing at 8 p.m. Fridays), and “Pirate Master” (an actual, honest-to-goodness CBS show premiering May 31).
"It's nice to see a billionaire jump up and down with honest to goodness excitement, not like, 'Oh yeah, I just made another million bucks today."
Honest to goodness, these people have nothing better to do than debate how close strippers should be allowed to get to patrons and how much they can take off and when.
"They’re trying to get the cat back into the bag.”
In Israel, a man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leaped through a window and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.
"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said Arthur Du Mosch, 49, a nature guide.
Only birds can go where they like in Baghdad these days.
In many parts of Baghdad, to have a foreigner visit your house could endanger everyone there.
In Baghdad, as in Dante's "Inferno," you step from one circle of hell into another, each worse than the last.
From the window of a moving car, all you see is a continuous band of gray concrete.
Political reconciliation will take years. Cleansing Baghdad's soul will take generations.
Remember: never get a facial the day before a special event. All that massaging and deep cleansing stirs up the impurities in your skin's deep layers, and you might have a breakout or two. It's also important not to overindulge.
Millions of times a day, users click away from Google, disappointed that they couldn’t find the hotel, the recipe or the background of that hot guy. Google often finds what users want, but it doesn’t always.
That’s why hundreds of Google engineers are constantly tweaking the company’s search engine in an elusive quest to close the gap between often and always.
“You can’t just react on the first complaint,” he says. “You let things simmer.”
Simmer down, boys. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean you have to empty the cooler.
“Simmer Down,” [2] Bob Marley with the Skatalites. (A reggae/ska mashup that’ll make you wish it were a genre unto itself.)
But days later, Mr. Cornyn still seemed rankled.
... the analogy rankles analysts ...
As much as it might rankle, pragmatism is the order of the day.
Misery is the Order of the Day in Restive Kirkuk.
But with Bill Clinton in Rochester, joy and celebration were the order of the day.
Hence putting rounded stones and tossing tree trunks became the order of the day.
The complex Senate bill - almost 700 pages long - has something to rankle almost everyone.
FEW THINGS RANKLE local folks more than the thought of a methadone clinic locating in their community.
Mass doping is now the order of the day
This change might rankle the chosen people of Iowa and New Hampshire because they would have to finally earn their coveted positions of influence. As soon as either of those states acquires an actual city, a diverse population or even a major sports team, I might actually feel the opinions held there should count for as much as my own.
Why does a bad pun rankle us so?
... the four men determined to carry out their attack, having ... downloaded satellite images from Google Earth.
An informant with a criminal history including drug trafficking and racketeering agreed to work with investigators on the case, in exchange for payments and a reduced sentence. [Just like on the Sopranos!]
“He’s not that type of person,” Mr. Watts said ... “He’s not smart enough.”
“It’s not as if it’s a trend,” he was quoted as saying.
“The level of hostility was amazing,” he said.
In cases involving Dr. Abuzzahab over 15 years in the 1980s and ’90s, the medical board found that he repeatedly prescribed narcotics and other controlled substances to addicts, ... telling a patient that his addictive pills should be thought of as “Hamburger Helper.”
Such notions may be “well-meaning and worthy,” but are irrelevant to the American military commissions at Guantánamo.
... some newspapers have called them Canada’s first family of terrorism ...
“There was a time when we would brag about the safety and security of our system, but we don’t do that anymore.”
It was not until Wednesday that Tony Snow publicly reached for the Korea example in talking about Iraq — setting off an analogy war between the White House and critics who charged that the administration was again disconnected from the realities of Iraq.
"... the idea is more a model of a mutually agreed arrangement ..."
For every thousand bricks, they earn a bit less than $5.50. The family, with five adult laborers, pockets on average a little more than $2 a day.
This is the life behind the great Indian construction boom. It is impossible to drive through any stretch of rural highway here without seeing — and smelling — brick kilns burning.
It was the kind of exercise, at once heroic and the slightest bit melancholy, repeated endlessly around Italy: driven by zeal to keep the nation’s superlative past alive, and dogged by worry that the past may overshadow a less glorious future.
As scientists they have to try everything because it is their job, even though there are more important things to worry about.”
I have tried on countless occasions to convey to my friends how incredible this book is.
... staying on top of your own health outlook may begin to resemble checking the performance of your stock portfolio ...
“Some people are going to have information that they don’t know what to do with. And that can do more harm than good.”
“What we really want now is a lot of data.”
“Smart boards is the new air-conditioning,” Dr. Wallerstein said.
Road & Track magazine called the car “a ferret with an oversupply of Y chromosomes.”
Among sport sedans, the 3 Series is like Dylan or the Clash: the one you can always come back to ... the best turbo powerplant this side of a $130,000 Porsche ...
Relying on the drone’s video, which offered only narrow views, was like looking at the battlefield through a “soda straw,” Colonel Conlin said.
On Monday, gunmen shot down a helicopter, killed its two pilots, then detonated roadside bombs that killed six soldiers who rushed to recover their comrades and the aircraft.
“You messed up, man,” Mr. Zumbo says Mr. Nugent told him. “Big time.”
“These guns are everywhere,” Mr. Nugent explained excitedly in a recent phone interview. “I personally don’t know anybody who doesn’t have two in his truck.”
“If you want to sell something to Americans, just tell them they can’t have it.”
