Word: desertions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appearances are secondary, only 12 concrete feet deep. The real problem with Mather House is the schlep. Moses would have welcomed wandering in the desert had he been forced to make the epic journey—daily—from Mather to the Science Center. I suggest that the Olympics rename their long distance run the Matherathon. Meanwhile, for students in Adams House, classes are but an antique brick’s throw away...
...they exit the room, Simmons looks over her shoulder to Evans. “Don’t come with us ’cause then we won’t get in,” she tells him. McNamara agrees: “Yeah, what happens if we desert you again?” This is a sore subject and Evans gestures angrily and remembers. “You left me for a party that really wasn’t worth it!” he replies. “We got a lot of beer...
...wore on. Flashing the Vogue card always felt a little pretentious and slightly phony. For one thing, everyone who forges a career in fashion magazines is always immaculately groomed. At the whim of a stylist, who envisaged a “boho-chic” shoot surrounded by red desert sands, we drove 15 hours from Sydney to a town in the middle of the Australian outback incidentally made famous as the location where the drag-queen epic The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was filmed. Staying at the only available “hotel?...
...fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation through 12 sons (assumed by tradition to be 12 Arab tribes). But he stipulates that the Covenant will flow only through Isaac's line...
MISSILE More than 800 Scuds were destroyed, but Iraq is believed to have secreted one or two dozen on mobile launchers somewhere in the desert. Iraq may be importing parts to expand its legal 150-km missiles to 600-km range...