Word: bins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Open front door of room. Examine contents of door-bin, looking for issues of The Salient. Once found, gather papers together, crumple into tight balls. Return to fireplace, and place the paper under and atop the andirons (available at Dickson Bros. hardware store...
...Make sure the flue is open. Go to Cafe India on Brattle Street. In the foyer, inconspicuously remove a pack of matches from the bin, without entering the restaurant. Hah! You got them. If waiter sees you, sprint out of restaurant, yelling, "they're after me, they're after me!" Return to dorm room. Light a match and light newspaper in several places. Watch your fire burn! (Matches available at Christie's for free...
Jordan's King of nearly a half-century had always been both a fatalist and an optimist. So after six months of unsuccessful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hussein bin Talal abruptly anointed as successor a little-known son, Abdullah, who promised the failing monarch "to follow in your footsteps...
Kill one person and you'll go to jail; kill a hundred and you'll get a deal. That old adage of India's gangsters may apply equally to international terrorists. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced Friday that Osama bin Laden has been gagged and his activities restricted, but they continue to reject Washington's calls to surrender him for trial over the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa. The announcement follows a meeting with British officials earlier this week, at which the Taliban were asked to "get control of" the alleged super-terrorist -- an approach the Afghanis hailed...
...terrorism. "France, for example, places a much higher premium on intelligence and threat avoidance," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Sometimes they prefer to press the terrorists' host country to police their activities rather than get them extradited, which can spur further terrorist attacks." Washington, however, remains determined to see Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit...