Word: carpe
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...broken sewage pipe for a week. We turn toward the center of Mansour, driving along a familiar set of railroad tracks. Looking across the gravel berms, I can see our old street. I see the empty corner where a group of brothers used to grill giant splayed carp, called masgouf, over open coals every evening. Down farther is the flat-roofed house where we lived and worked. I haven't been back there since March 24, 2004, when our bureau manager, Omar Kamal, was gunned down on his way to work, a sign that the war had caught...
...vision of an America that rolled back Soviet power. In 2004, conservatives overlooked George W. Bush's prescription drug benefit and his liberal stance on immigration, and turned out for him in record numbers, because they believed so deeply in his war on terror. Now, by contrast, right-wingers carp endlessly about his domestic spending, even though his budgets have been leaner in his second term than in his first, because his foreign policy has become such a depressing affair...
...bureaucratic windmills in order to angle a fishing permit. He used to fish in the Czech town of Olomouc, where he played with another team. But in all the time he spent at the local river there, he managed to catch only "one trout and a karpyonka [Russian for carp]." He is mystified about the kind of bait Eastern European fish prefer. "I don't know what they eat here. I try sausage, popcorn, but they...
...anyone can publish on the Web, to what do we aspire? Just to write, and as long as someone reads our work, we have arrived? While I enjoy the Web and will keep checking in from time to time, I have decided to get my first newspaper subscription. Nicole Carp Lawrence, New Jersey...
...relatively easy. Levels of comfort vary. In many shukubo, a thin futon, a chaff-filled pillow and nothing but paper doors between you and the next snoring pilgrim are the norm. But others can be surprisingly refined, with delicate flower arrangements, swirling calligraphy on the walls and views of carp ponds. Bathrooms and toilet facilities are typically communal. So are morning prayers. To rise at dawn for an hour-long ceremony may not be everyone's path to enlightenment, but guests are expected to attend. For good measure, some temples offer classes in meditation, calligraphy, flower arranging and vegetarian cooking...