Word: baseness
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Ayckbourn, 70, who is still going strong from his home base in Scarborough, England, despite suffering a stroke three years ago, looks with bemusement at the trouble Americans have staging his delicate mix of comedy and tragedy. "It looks pretty easy," he says, "but it sure as hell isn't. You've only got to tune it too far one way or the other." The new Norman Conquests is pitch-perfect. Can't anyone in America pick up the tune...
...Infield fly rule=unexpected and unwelcome unzipping of pants; bunt=kissing her hand and then attempting to move to lips; Kirby Puckett=her ex-boyfriend; third base=vague; hit by pitch=hit by bus while kissing date; first base coach=guy who helps you make out; Cal Ripken, Jr.=making out with same girl 2,632 consecutive times; called third strike=leave theater, get popcorn, return, date absent; inside the park home run=artificial insemination; suicide squeeze= “DO ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF”; Registrar Barry S. Kane=inventor of the suicide squeeze...
...another case causing concern within the civil rights world, the Obama Administration has appealed the ruling of Federal District Judge John Bates that three detainees - two Yemenis and a Tunisian - who are being held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan have a legal right to challenge their imprisonment. If successful, the argument by Obama's Justice Department attorneys could create a loophole that would allow Obama to transfer prisoners to war zones for indefinite detention, a situation similar to the legal limbo that Bush established for Guantánamo...
...been under surveillance by U.S. and German intelligence agents for months. The authorities claim that at the end of 2006, two of the suspects had been spying on the U.S. military base in Hanau, 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Frankfurt. Intelligence officials had been monitoring the group's cellphone conversations and email traffic with IJU leaders abroad. It was in February 2007 that preparations for the bombings began in earnest, prosecutors say. According to the authorities, the suspects collected 12 barrels of hydrogen peroxide, but in July 2007, the German authorities secretly swapped the 35% solution of hydrogen peroxide...
China's rapidly growing Navy today patrols the Gulf of Aden, helping to protect Chinese commercial ships from piracy. It has eight new kilo class submarines - whose silence underwater makes them difficult to detect. Many of them are housed at a huge, new Naval base on the tropical island of Hainan, the "Hawaii" of China. Just last week, Admiral Wu Shengli, China's top naval officer, said his country needed to acquire more high tech weaponry in "order to boost the ability to fight in regional sea wars." Toward that end, many military analysts believe, China will soon build...