Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat's ailing health was plain to see at Friday?s ceremony. "The problem," says Dowell, "is that Arafat's made tough decisions that aren't popular among Palestinians, but he hasn't created an heir...
Some of the pieces, granted, aren't as sharp as they could have been. But for the most part, Stewart grabs eclectic tidbits from today's headlines or society pages and sculpts them into tales so insanely far-fetched that you only wish they were real. One of the best in the entire collection, "Vincent and Theo on AOL," follows Van Gogh through a series of internet chat rooms...
...comedians-turned-writers. With brilliant fervor, nonstop wit and the decorum of the average skateboard fanatic, Stewart rips into the good, the bad and the better-left-unsaid. Not all of the stories come out as winners, but those that do are certainly worth discovering, and those that aren't should at least be given a chance. In addition to the Martha Stewart shenanigans, another particularly revealing section of the book is found in the final section, "Microsoft Word '98 Suggested Spelling and Usage," in which the words "Mr. Feelyhands," "Fuckface," "Cocksucker," "Chickenshit" and "Alan Dershowitz" all come up with...
...Lalli explained, "Nintendo games aren't all we do. We also play computer games." They also play sports. When asked which intramurals they play, the group responded in unison, "ALL of them...
...Netanyahu until 3 a.m. Wednesday and later considered returning as the talks threaten to break down in a flurry of recriminations. The President has already invested 57 hours in the talks, but both Israelis and Palestinians don't share his sense of the significance of the summit. "The talks aren't even the lead item on the TV news here," says Beyer. "This whole drawn-out high-level summit is inappropriate for the issues at stake here -- they're negotiating over the details of a single clause of the Oslo Agreement, but Washington is treating it with the same sense...