Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vicky has dark hair, with bangs that run to her eyebrows. Her face swings with her moods, from glee to disdain, from fatigue to excitement. She usually grins broadly but rolls her eyes and sighs when you forget your ID and beg her to punch in your number. When Vicky is rested, she looks young and jokes with you. When she's tired, her eyes puff up and she complains about almost anything. Her daughter, Katerina, who's nine, has the same dark hair, expressive face and uninhibited demeanor. "I was the same as her growing up," Vicky said, "okay...
...accents. They talk of Boston and the Square, at a volume sufficient to drown out most of my other conversations. Finally, the driver surrenders; "What brings you to Boston?" he asks. The blonde begins to detail their vacation. The loudest of the four, a bandanna tied around her short dark curls, turns to a third and exclaims, "OOOOOH, YES! We have engaged the bus in conversation!" Hmph. Actually, I didn't say anything. But I should have known they'd be trouble; those who know board by Holyoke Gate...
...America is a democratic experiment often unwilling to acknowledge its dark side," said West, who is Alphonse Fletcher Jr.University Professor of African-American Studies. "The future depends on our ability to candidly confront social problems of poverty and low quality of life...
...Cairo airport, EgyptAir officials in dark blue suits could do little more than confirm the names of the 217 passengers and crew, among them 62 Egyptians and 106 Americans. "I want to stay at the airport forever," said Hanafi Abdel Fattah, upon learning he had lost his eldest daughter, Walaa. "I cannot go home and face my wife." Other family members immediately accepted EgyptAir's offer to fly them to the U.S. to be close to the recovery efforts. Explained one bewildered relative: "All the information is in America, they...
...actually hard to imagine how, for Microsoft, it could have come out any worse. The ruling carefully lays out the factual basis for the major antitrust violations that seem certain to follow. And it paints an exceedingly dark portrait of one of America's most admired companies. The Microsoft of Judge Jackson's narrative is a deep-pocketed bully that uses "its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm" companies that presume to compete with it. And it presents Gates as a law-flouting monopolist who makes a "threat" to one rival considering getting into the software market...