From the start, Mr Straw has had the wit to pull his neck like a turtle into the non-political, quasi-judicial role into which home secretaries are sometimes obliged, and often grateful, to retreat.
The critter looks like a tiny turtle, but with a shell shaped like a hockey puck.
And watching the Obama administration trying to backpedal has been like watching a turtle on its back.
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Still, it's hard not to giggle toward the end at the spectacle of him encased in medieval body armor, like a hirsute turtle on its hind legs.
Brooklyn lost despite owning home court, despite the Bulls shedding multiple players to injury and plague, despite Rihanna shimmering courtside, despite a fancy new arena that looks like a rusted turtle.
"It was upside down - it looks like a big leatherback turtle, " he said.
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They open and close like a hungry mouth, or perhaps a snapping turtle.
Like a flipped-over turtle, Rask sat and waved at the puck as it trickled past him for perhaps the strangest goal of this postseason.
No, I want to sit out on the National Mall looking like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, sparkler in one hand, pizza in the other, watching things explode and make pretty colors.
These are postcards from a chef with ambitions not to be contained by borders. ("I've been an immigrant my whole life, " he says.) His most recent venture, a collaboration with the National Archives called America Eats Tavern, is a place where historic dishes like Kentucky burgoo and mock turtle soup serve as a love letter to his adopted country.
Some of the casualties are natural, like turtle hatchlings dropped by gulls onto a construction site.
The arena-in-progress resembles a rusty turtle, a shell of weathered steel and glass lurching its way into the intersection like it wants to cross the street and buy a dryer at P.
Arpaio has a big, round head, and there is something turtle-like about his posture.
Like the other structures in Lingshui, the sea turtle hospital is little more than a small dock topped with a hut.
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