Word: cemented
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Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...
...Some seem to think that life at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is a bunker existence. To be sure, rockets and mortars have fallen in the Green Zone, and at least three State Department employees have died in Iraq. But, according to embassy officials, diplomats in Iraq head for cement bunkers less often lately, thanks to a drop in violence around Baghdad and elsewhere in the country. "There are people who think it's constantly a barrage of mortar and rocket attacks," says Butenis, who began her Foreign Service career in Pakistan shortly after the U.S. embassy there was torched...
...once called the world's largest heroin producer. In the '80s and '90s, when Burma produced three-quarters of the world's heroin, the charming, ruthless guerrilla leader fended off ethnic rivals to control some 75% of Burma's trade--as well as a cadre of brutal armies to cement his rule. He surrendered with amnesty to Burmese officials in 1996. Now the Golden Triangle grows just 5% of the world's heroin supply. Khun Sa, who died of unknown causes...
...ground attack is on the rise, with freshman Gino Gordon, the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week, now sharing time atop the depth chart along with sophomore Cheng Ho.Entering the soft part of its schedule—Dartmouth and Columbia are on deck—the Crimson can cement its status as a top-two team in the Ivies with a win. Prediction: Harvard 30, Princeton 20PENN (2-3, 1-1) VS. NO. 16 YALE (5-0, 2-0)With every passing week, by running every week, Yale looks more and more primed to finish the season undefeated. Mike McLeod...
...works out, Kovacs could cement his place among the greatest athletes in Harvard sailing history...