Word: blazes
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...live in Seoul. Everywhere you go in South Korea's sprawling capital, there are reminders that the World Cup is coming to town: the official logo is on practically every billboard, the concrete curbside flower beds are shaped like footballs and the lights from the giant new soccer stadium blaze up into the night sky. Worst of all are the electronic signboards that count down the days to the May 31 kickoff. As if it isn't hard enough waiting for the tournament to begin, you have to be reminded constantly how much longer you have to wait. Perhaps...
...allies have long believed that Omar and bin Laden would choose to go down in a blaze of martyrdom. But with the storm gathering around them, both men appeared intent on survival. Perhaps their only way out was a dangerous route through the snowy passes of the White Mountains and into one of the border towns of Pakistan. Once there, they could receive refuge from sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen and be absorbed into the anonymous urban surroundings...
Despite the blaze of controversy that invariably follows him, Douthat prefers to take a philosophical, somewhat detached viewpoint. “I regard myself as a conservative in the aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he wrote a novella about a student who was “allergic to technology—he ended up having to type his essays on a manual typewriter, and fell into this collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses...
...last two armed Taliban prisoners at Mazar-i-Sharif went out in a blaze of tank shells Tuesday, ending a bloody three-day rebellion that claimed hundreds of lives. At least one was an American; the CIA confirmed Wednesday a report by TIME's Alex Perry that Johnny "Mike" Spann, one of the agency's operatives, was killed early on in the fighting...
SWITZERLAND Inferno Under The Mountain Two trucks crashed head on, starting a fire in the Gotthard Tunnel that killed at least 11 people. Thick black smoke billowed out of the 16-km tunnel as the blaze, fueled by a load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three...