Word: boredly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thank you for shedding some light on Mormons who feel unsure about the issue of Proposition 8. As a student at Brigham Young University this year, I did not feel able to voice my own insecurity on the political issue, as several of my classmates bore obvious ill will toward those Mormons not 100% on board. Chelsea Gibbs, Mamaroneck...
...Andy Kaufman. For starters, Borat owes a thing or two to Latka, the Ruritanian innocent that Kaufman played on Taxi. More important, Baron Cohen's approach calls to mind those Kaufman routines - though routine is the wrong word for anything he did - in which he deliberately set out to bore and bewilder his audiences, just to see what would happen. In one he went onstage and simply read aloud from The Great Gatsby. While everyone waited for the joke, the punch line, the something, the anything, he just kept reading. (See pictures of the Kazakhstan Borat didn't depict...
Thank you for shedding some light on Mormons who feel unsure about the issue of Proposition 8. As a student at Brigham Young University this year, I did not feel able to voice my own insecurity on the political issue, as several of my classmates bore obvious ill will toward those Mormons not 100% on board. Chelsea Gibbs, MAMARONECK...
...Deira would be a classy hotel anywhere. But part of its allure is its sheer contrast with the rest of Gaza, which has been ravaged by three years of economic blockade, a fratricidal war among Palestinians and, seven months ago, a full-bore Israeli air, land and sea assault that lasted 22 days. After traversing Gaza's blasted urban landscape, you arrive at the hotel like a desert wanderer plunging his head into oasis waters. With its cool shadows and an inner courtyard trapping pools of light, the Al Deira has an Ottoman elegance. You're led to your room...
...smuggled in from Pakistan, intelligence officials say. There are, however, some troubling exceptions. One U.S. military officer in Afghanistan explained that, over the summer, coalition convoys transiting through Wardak province were being targeted with unusually powerful bombs. Some of the explosives recovered from weapons caches in the area bore Chinese markings, identical to those being used by contractors working on a new road through a hostile river valley. It was later learned that employees had sold ordnance to local insurgents in exchange for security guarantees...