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...Brine-cured cheese 2. Antiquing agent 3. Who -- Turn To 4. Winds up 5. Defeat soundly 6. __ up (angry) 7. Psyche parts 8. Ho-hum 9. Puppeteer Rufus, whose family is in a custody battle for Howdy Doody 10. State with conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall...
Juliette Beck, 27, is as close to a bigwig as the movement has, but even she feels like a tiny link in the wired cosmos of antiglobalism. An organizer for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human-rights group, Beck arrived in Washington fresh from a 20-city road show that was organized largely via e-mail. "We got housing and food for nine people on the road," she says. "The events and the nonviolence training and the political theater--the Internet made it possible." Beck, who planned to demonstrate in costume along with 20 others in her "affinity group...
...Proper's partner 5. Tehran bigwig, once 9. __ Lott, who forced through confirmation of two judges 10. He stopped at six 12. Afghan airline, and recent hijack victim 13. Martin Indyk is new ambassador to this nation 15. __ Kapital 16. Fort Benning constabulary 17. Irish state broadcaster: abbr. 18. Natural emollient 20. Missile for Moe 21. Governor who has placed a moratorium on executions 22. A new South African museum has been named for him 24. "__ evil ... " 25. Day-__ paints 26. Paul's Exodus role 27. A Senate bill has been introduced to increase their number 30. Name conspicuously absent...
...starred Cambodia. Last year Pol Pot finally died in his jungle hideout, and just before the new year, two of the last three Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, turned themselves in for a while to the government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer Rouge bigwig still at large, Ta Mok, a one-legged general known as the Butcher, was captured in March and now awaits trial. For the first time in more than a generation, there are no Cambodians in refugee camps across the border in Thailand, and the Khmer Rouge, held responsible for the death...
Drawing strength from his colorful past,Simpson has delighted both bigwig politicians andHarvard undergraduates alike with his own uniqueblend of self-deprecating and cutting, sarcastichumor...