Word: alleys
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...conducting an extramarital affair? No, there was no reason for me to believe that. You have to understand, I had all my money with him. He had a huge reputation; he was chairman of Nasdaq and had a very successful brokerage firm. This wasn't a back-alley type...
...will continue, but cuts have forced us to replace the shuttles with giant, multi-person bicycles, which must be pedaled by the students. Further cuts have required us to shorten the route of late night service during the weekend, and shuttles will now pick up students from a deserted alley near Cambridge Common. Due to budget cuts, the lighting in this area has been eliminated. We want to stress, though, that these cuts have freed up additional funding for brain break, and we have arranged for special brain breaks for the entryway of any students who are mugged...
...swapped with people as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand, and once she exchanged her one-bedroom co-op (with an alley view) for a large, upscale home on a lagoon (with a view of the ocean) in California. "I burst out laughing. I could not get over it," she said of the fine-artwork-filled home that the Marin County couple swapped with her so they could visit their daughter and her new baby. "They got this little, small apartment, and I got this million-dollar home. I laughed at the trade, but they were happy...
...sign that the influx of some 20,000 personnel has eased fears of Han vigilante mobs that formed July 7. "They had clubs and knives and there was nothing we could do," says a man named Yusef as he stood beside a barricade of trash bins still protecting an alley filled with ramshackle Uighur homes. "Now it's a little bit better. The government has come and they're enforcing the law. The People's Armed Police are here, and they're keeping the Han away." Later in the day, the Uighur residents dismantled the barrier. (Read "The Other Tibet...
...most part, the crowd remained nonviolent, though at one point young men began to throw rocks from an alley at passing soldiers. When the small group of soldiers retreated, the man in front of the protesters threw up his hands in victory to the cheers of the crowd. As a procession of men carrying flower arrangements commemorating the 1999 student uprising went by, a bystander explained that these men were the first to be attacked...