Word: break
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson stormed out of the gate in its season opener, immediately attacking the Friars' defense. After some early pressure, Harvard was able to break through just 1:27 into the contest...
...internal pressure from forces opposed to letting go of East Timor. Those range from the former dictator Suharto and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri to the country's all-powerful military. The military has extensive economic interests in East Timor, and the officer corps fears that allowing the territory to break away will only encourage secessionist movements across the 13,000 ethnically diverse islands that make up Indonesia...
...Broadway is getting pretty blase about the big names from Hollywood--Nicole Kidman, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater--who keep showing up to prove they're more than just flickers on a screen. Harrelson is not a stranger to New York City theater (his first break was as an understudy in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues in 1984), but he's far better known as a star of TV (Cheers) and film (Natural Born Killers). So can he cut it as the eponymous con man of N. Richard Nash's 1954 drama, being revived by the Roundabout Theatre? It's this...
...lawyer's story," announces the narrator, George Mason, at the very beginning of the book, "the kind attorneys like to hear and tell." What this means is that readers will be taken behind the scenes as a group of lawyers and law enforcers try to gather evidence that will break up a cabal of corrupt judges in Turow's fictional Kindle County. This sting operation poses dangers for everyone involved, and Turow spares neither his characters nor readers maximum suspense. WHEN Sept...
...takes responsibility for anything. The slow-moving U.N., instead of providing solutions, serves mostly as an excuse, as in, "The U.N. was supposed to do that." "Things aren't going well at all," says a U.N. adviser based in Pristina. "We're at the point of a make-or-break, do-or-die situation...