Word: closers
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...decide to go down to the kitchen and get a bowl of cereal.No one wakes up as I go down the two half-floors and three full floors beneath that to the kitchen. There are bodies dotting the carpets and armchairs in greater numbers as I get closer to the living room where I guess the main party had been, even two people sleeping on top of each other on the stairs. A light in the hallway that adjoins the landing to the first floor stairs has been smashed, a delicate pile of broken glass on the floorboards underneath...
...pace. I was maybe a hundred feet in front of Katie. I wanted to put some distance between me and Katie, so that it didn’t look like I was stalking her or something. Then, gradually, so very gradually, I slowed my pace so that Katie came closer. And closer. And closer. I could hear her footsteps on the dirt road. I didn’t dare turn around. I just slowed down a little. Until finally, we were beside each other. Now was my chance. The chance I’d been waiting for since the womb...
...decent vantage point, to be sure, but one that is tucked away from view of other tables. The level of service easily surpasses that of HUDS, who won't do you the courtesy of taking your coat, placing your bag inconveniently behind your chair, or pushing you closer to the table while asking if you're comfortable. But how about the food? After all the FOOD (and spaces that serve it) are supposed to be the attractant. What student will go for the overnight accommodations when he or she lives two blocks away...
Abroad, Sarkozy upended Chirac's policies by trading in the traditional Franco-German partnership for closer ties to London. He also reached out to the internationally loathed and isolated George W. Bush, adopting the role of an adoring and trustworthy French friend. Sarkozy's group-hug address to the U.S. Congress in November 2007 was nothing short of a smash, as he waved off Chirac-era disputes over Iraq for references to America's sacrifice in World War II to promise "whenever an American soldier falls somewhere in the world, I think of what the American army did for France...
...pretext to "protect" Russians, as it did in the Georgian enclave of South Ossetia last year. That invasion led many political analysts to suggest that Russia's next target would be Crimea, with its largely pro-Russian population. The Tatars, on the other hand, are vocal supporters of closer ties to Europe. "Many in Crimea want to be part of Russia, but we see our future as part of Ukraine," says Jemilev...