Word: abounding
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...fighters wear cyanide capsules around their necks. For the Tigers, many of whom are recruited as children, Prabhakaran is akin to a demi-god. Photographs of his chubby, affable-looking image hang on almost every wall in Tiger territory, and stories about the kindness and wisdom of The Leader abound. Not an articulate man, Prabhakaran, 51, uses secrecy to build his mystique, rarely making public appearances. Many analysts see him as the single biggest obstacle to peace. "He's a warrior," says Chalk. "The best hope for peace is if Prabhakaran dies...
...Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
DERBY, CONN.—If only the course had been 100 meters longer, the start a little crisper, or the first 1,000 meters more aggressive.The if-onlys abound, but they won’t do much to bring the Goldthwait Cup back to Cambridge for the fourth consecutive year.The Harvard varsity lightweights’ surge in the final 500 meters proved too little, too late in a failed attempt to claim the Goldthwait Cup in dual competition with Princeton and Yale on Saturday. An open-water win from the Harvard second varsity and the second freshman eight?...
...interest after showing off the device. A French commercial broadcaster, to take one example, was asking to co-brand the Slingbox in France. The more Slingbox broadcasts that are zapped around the globe, the harder it will be to make sure that they are used legally. And gray areas abound. "Where I could see difficulty is if that 'one-to-one' connection is to a pub full of people watching a sporting event,'' says Simon Fell, controller of emerging technologies for British commercial broadcaster itv. On the other hand, Fell notes that Sling technology could "effectively mean that more eyeballs...
...TAKE A SHOT: 1. Every time someone is either obviously wearing, or proceeds to remove, an identity-changing mask. Look into securing the services of a Hollywood makeup team in preparation for Mather Lather. 2. Whenever an incredibly stereotypical character appears. Surly Europeans of all shapes and sizes abound. 3. For each sighting of the “Tom Cruise Face.” You know; the one where he opens his mouth slightly, puts on a dead stare and breathes heavily. 4. Every time you see Jon Voight, because the only way to comprehend that this man co-produced...