Word: choruses
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...past week, musical groups have been inducting students into their troupes by making unexpected appearances at new members’ dorms, but this surprising serenade was slightly alarming to Ntiri because she had not auditioned for any of the groups, let alone a men’s chorus...
...Proliferation John Bolton that described Kim as a "tyrant" keeping his people imprisoned in a "living hell" and warned against giving in to Pyongyang's nuclear "extortion." That speech, a U.S. diplomat told TIME, "basically called for regime change," and that's in line with the neo-conservative chorus in Washington who have repeatedly warned against any "appeasement" in the form of security guarantees that keep an odious regime intact. Just last week, key State Department North Korea expert Jack Pritchard, who had long served as point man in contacts with Pyongyang, resigned in the wake of complaints that...
...hosting gay parades was calculated p.r., designed to appease conservatives worried about an influx of gay tourists. But it was also a disingenuous statement if the Nation party was anything to go by. That party may not have been a Sydney Mardi Gras with a Gay Men's Chorus and dykes on bikes?and it may not have been officially backed?but it was a three-day fest of international proportions, held on Sentosa island. Its cheeky centerpiece was a riotous party at the island's Musical Fountain, timed for Aug. 9, Singapore's National...
...past several years, a growing chorus of intelligence experts, led by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, has called on Congress and the White House to place all the budget authority in the hands of a single Cabinet-level intelligence chief. But the Bush Administration has ignored these calls, partly because Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has no intention of giving away power without a fight and partly because the White House has no desire to pick a fight with him. It was therefore striking that the Pentagon came under such heavy fire in last week's bipartisan report for resisting...
...chorus of whistling—completely unplanned—rose from one corner of the mob and spread across the room. Tens of lips forced out the strains to “Happy Birthday...