Word: diamonde
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...good book can take something that seemed impenetrable and make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...knows how to turn an economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...weather. Conditions prevented either game from taking place this afternoon. The baseball game was rescheduled after it was postponed yesterday due to both snow and rain. Today it was the ground rather than the sky that made the impact, as the field became simply unplayable. Both sets of diamond dwellers were slated to take the field at 3 p.m. yesterday, baseball at O’Donnell Field against Holy Cross and softball in Chestnut Hill, Mass., against Boston College. Neither school has announced a makeup date for the game, each will presumably be scheduled for later in the season...
...tried my best to find out what happened to the man who could spark a war with Iran, but he seems to have disappeared like a diamond in an inkwell. And it makes me nervous...
...motivational circuit, Giuliani has tapped into an alternative vein of American religious thought - the gospel of success. The idea that God intends for Americans to prosper is as old as the nation. A century ago, Russell Conwell, a Baptist preacher, distilled this gospel in his speech "Acres of Diamonds." Through some 6,000 public appearances, the tireless Conwell told his exotic story of a man who left his farm to search the globe for gems, only to die penniless and bereft - while the world's largest diamond mine lay waiting to be discovered on the man's original acreage...