Word: crammed
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That the tricksters and cheats are strutting their stuff at all is some-thing of a miracle on ice and snow. The sudden admission of cheating as an Olympic sport threw Salt Lake City into a tizzy of frantic preparation to cram in a heavy schedule of new events before the Games' official close. A special commission, many of its members flaunting forged credentials, worked through the night at an improvised headquarters in the costliest suite in one of Salt Lake City's plushest hotels, reportedly paid for with a stolen credit card. By dawn the next day, they...
...ghastly Taliban executions in the past?Afghans squared off against international peacekeepers in a football game, the first live entertainment in the capital in nearly a decade. The event was marred by stone throwing, tear-gas firing and beatings as foreign troops struggled to hold back thousands trying to cram into the already brimming 30,000-seat stadium. Against the warlords, Karzai is similarly outmanned. Though he can count on widespread support from both the West and Afghans sick of the fighting and bullying, his rivals have weapons and the inclination to use them. Murder is a time-honored tool...
...which irk her and which of her demands are nonnegotiable. On the song Surrendering, she sings, "I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces." The line swings like a dump truck, but it's charmingly transparent. Even when her words are simple, she likes to cram in as many as the rhythm allows, for clarity's sake. On Hands Clean, she recalls the words of a lover: "I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body." It's not P.B. Shelley, but it's pretty damn clear...
...Rumors of extortion rackets and political manipulation are rife and any justice meted out is arbitrary. On a recent rainy night in Jakarta, hundreds of adherents to one of the most powerful fundamentalist groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), cram into trucks and minivans and head for a slum on the west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer...
...John Nicholas Brown, who was looking to build a summer home on Fishers Island, R.I., for his family. Brown was a Harvard-educated man with a life-long passion for modern art and architecture. Interested in medieval art during the early 1920s, he collaborated with the architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the interior of the Gothic Chapel at St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. Brown’s interest soon shifted to modern art, and he was a member of the junior advisory committee during the founding of the Museum of Modern Art in New York...