Word: beginnings
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According to Pratt, the family's agent Lane Zachary on Monday plans to begin circulating copies of manuscripts to bidders interested in the publishing and movie rights. There will be an auction to determine the eventual winner...
...circumstances. You have radical, militant Jewish settlers protected by Israeli soldiers in the middle of a hostile Palestinian local community." The troop re-deployment was supposed to have started in the end of March, but February's string of suicide bombings has delayed the process. Peres has vowed to begin the withdrawal, agreed to in the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, before the election. PLO leader Yaser Arafat, however, said he would be happy with a gradual approach beginning after the election, sources told the Jersalem Post. Hebron is the last West Bank city under Israeli control, and the only place...
Since the end of World War II, as blacks have streamed into the cities in search of work, whites have streamed out--in search of greener lawns and whiter neighbors. Anytime blacks were able to breach the wall of restrictive covenants, brokers' steering and mortgage redlining to begin to integrate a neighborhood, white flight and resegregation quickly followed. By 1970, with the white birthrate plunging, Northern urban school districts, which seldom extend beyond city limits, lacked enough white children to desegregate...
Perhaps because royal marriages begin so grandly, their endings always seem a bit pathetic, more fizz than bang. So it was that last Wednesday, 27 reporters and a civilian were the only ones present when the names of SARAH FERGUSON, Duchess of York, and PRINCE ANDREW, Duke of York, were on the list of 29 couples granted a decree nisi (a.k.a. a "quickie divorce") in a three-minute ceremony. The prince was holed up in his navy barracks, and the duchess was smothering her sadness in the snows of Switzerland, accompanied by daughters BEATRICE, 7 and EUGENIE, 6. "Of course...
...public impressions of what is the tallest or the largest or the oldest are not decided by precise measurements. Once the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower were built, for instance, I thought that those of us who pride ourselves on our accuracy should begin referring to the Empire State Building as "the third tallest building in the Greater New York area." Nobody else seemed to think that...