Word: chased
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...David Chase, creator of HBO's The Sopranos, has sworn up and down that Season 6, the season after this one, will be the show's last. Chase says he doesn't want the show to repeat itself. And the gracious thing would be to start the countdown, admire his artistic integrity and thank him for the memories...
...paper chase is maddeningly ineffective. Zhou Mingqin, a 75-year-old woman from Henan province, rode on the back of a tricycle-wagon pedaled by her son for the 600-km trip to Beijing. She wants an investigation into the deaths of three family members, whom she claims were killed for being too inquisitive about missing disaster-relief funds granted to her village after a devastating hailstorm. In August 2002, Zhou says she walked into the civil-affairs sector of the Henan Provincial People's Court to deliver her petition, only to have a policeman punch her in the face...
China's Young Rebels Re your article on China's linglei, the disaffected young iconoclasts [Feb. 2]: It is good that things are getting better in modern China and that linglei can dare to chase their wildest dreams. Those who are choosing an alternative lifestyle have a new kind of freedom. Whether that will enable them to raise openly the issues that truly matter remains to be seen. In the absence of complete freedom, the progress of linglei may only divert attention from real issues. Let's hope that the wait for free choice, both personal and political...
After being knocked down hard while drawing a foul with 4:23 to go in the first half, Rogus got up slowly and was in obvious pain while limping to the free throw line. And though he missed his second free throw, Rogus managed to chase the ball down and was knocked down hard while drawing a foul—again...
...universe. Hence the name, inspired by the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rosetta is an ambitious and technically challenging mission. It will not be easy to keep a rendezvous in 2014 with a comet tearing through space near Jupiter. The 165-kg-payload orbiter is to chase, circle and remotely study the comet, as well as dispatch a 100-kg lander onto its surface for closer analysis. If the j1 billion mission succeeds, scientists say it will be a major step toward improving human understanding of the origin of the sun, Earth and the other planets...