Word: baton
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...failed, The Times-Picayune’s newsroom quickly flooded.“The water was not receding, but rising,” Horne says. “[We] piled everyone into the circulation trucks and just barely got out.”Horne rallied his news team in Baton Rouge, where they started printing on borrowed printing presses since their own were trapped in floodwaters. Covering the hurricane, he says, was “fascinating, challenging, [and] sometimes horrifying.”Within a week of Hurricane Katrina, Random House contacted him about writing a book on what...
...Baton Rouge, Governor Blanco revealed that her office had been working with New Orleans since last week to assist the city's beleaguered police force, many of whom still have no homes. "The situation is urgent and we will accelerate our plans to deploy law enforcement to the city tomorrow [Tuesday]," she said in a statement. "I will not tolerate criminal behavior... Criminals are not welcome in New Orleans or anywhere else in the state...
...Throughout the weekend tournament, Shortz bustles around, announcing the rules and the winners of each of the seven puzzles. On Saturday night there's a talent show - the search for an "American Crossword Idol" - at which Ellen demonstrates her baton-twirling expertise. Another conventioneer, Vic Fleming, sings and strums a cruciverbalist's country lament: "But if you don't come across / I'm gonna be down...
...Studies A-13, “China: Traditions and Transformations,” with several different colleagues. Bol calls it a “division of labor” approach in which he leads the first half of the class through the first two millennia and then passes the baton to a modern scholar.This spring, he collaborated with Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Michael A. Szonyi for Chinese History 126, “Cognition and Culture in Local China,” and the two of them alternated by weeks, while also participating in each other?...
Seen from a distance, today's Nepal is an otherworldly place. Its hills are overrun with young and frightening Maoist guerrillas. Until a few weeks ago, its cities were brimming with baton-swinging riot police in blue fatigues and protesting students with torches in their hands. Average people doing average things seem about as common as yetis?except in the work of Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay. The Royal Ghosts, his new collection of short stories, is full of characters who care for sick parents, fall in love with the wrong people, cheat on their spouses or get drunk...