Word: bored
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...telephone contact with the Lebanese kidnappers, urging them to release their captives. In May of that year he says he extracted a pledge that all the hostages would be released within a week. A day later, he was visited by the head of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon, who bore a message from then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Assad wanted the hostages released. Could Toufeili help? The Hizballah leader reassured the Syrians that the issue would be resolved shortly...
...exposure. But that was before a couple of recent developments. One is the endless campaign. The day after every presidential election, the media take the pledge. They say, O.K., that's it. People deserve a break. Next time we are not going to let the presidential campaign start full-bore two years before the election. And every cycle the campaign starts earlier. This one has been going on for more than a year, with a year and a half still to go. Every day added to the length of the campaign is a day's worth of political stories that...
...fast break alongside my friend Dario. I remember him lifting the ball perfectly to my eye level a foot in front of my face, letting my momentum do the work as my forehead struck the ball into the back of the net for a goal that bore no consequence other than being something the two of us could laugh triumphantly about on the walk home.I know that I was inducted into the National Honor Society sometime near the end of high school. I remember winning the silver medal in the 55-meter hurdles at the CHSAA Brooklyn-Queens sophomore championships...
...package, which arrived at NBC two days after Cho killed 32 people and committed suicide in the deadliest one-man shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, bore a Postal Service stamp showing that it had been mailed at a Virginia post office at 9:01 a.m. Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after Cho first opened fire...
...first time in recent memory that political violence has struck Nagasaki, the second Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in 1945. In 1990, Itoh's predecessor, Hitoshi Motoshima, was shot by a member of a far-right-wing group after stating that Emperor Hirohito bore responsibility for Japan's actions in World War II. (Hirohito had been exempted from any charges at the Tokyo War Crimes trials, and his guilt - or innocence - remains highly controversial in Japan to this...