Word: chambers
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...kids entered the dark chamber of the resident fortune teller, played by Michelle M. Snuffer...
...that none of these pitches or disparagements were paid for by Longley or his Democratic opponent, Thomas Allen, or even their respective parties. The pro-Longley spots come courtesy of the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association and a coalition of corporations led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The anti-Longley information was supplied by the AFL-CIO and, to a lesser extent, the American Association of Retired Persons. By taking advantage of a legal loophole in campaign-finance laws that permit so-called independent expenditures, special-interest groups are hogging the airwaves, phone lines...
...response comes late and from a weakened army. One of the Republicans' chief allies, a Chamber of Commerce-led coalition, has struggled to raise the $4 million it has spent to help some of the most endangered freshmen Republicans. A separate effort by the same group to go after Democratic incumbents has been truncated for lack of funding. Grouses G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "We're playing a game of poker with Congress: the other side has doubled its bet, and the business community is just walking away from the table...
...Chamber, John Grisham's 1994 novel about a young lawyer trying to save his racist murderer of a grandfather from being gassed by the state of Mississippi, has at its heart such a confrontation. The book's 676 pages tease with the tactics of time-bomb suspense, notably in the figure of a hovering assassin who threatens grandfather Sam with a family bloodbath if he reveals that the assassin was guilty of the crime for which Sam is to be executed. But The Chamber is really a tale of love and forgiveness, a suturing of wounds across three generations...
Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, Leadership Council, Comm. Chair; Harvard Mediation Service, Award Peer Tutor; Immediate Gratification Players; Mizmar Shir, chamber choir...