Word: dices
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...political plan is a major roll of the dice for Washington. The harsh reality of the escalating insurgency has forced the Bush administration to abandon its program for direct U.S. supervision of a slow and thorough transition to Iraqi democracy. Instead, sovereign authority and control of the transition will be placed in the hands of a government chosen by Iraqis - even if the "electorate" is confined to elites vetted by Iraqis previously chosen by the U.S. to run various local, provincial and national councils...
...TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL A vintage adventure game gets its computerized revival--no dice necessary...
Remember Dungeons & Dragons, that game for anyone who was too smart for his own good in high school and didn't have a date on Friday night? Time was you needed a pencil, books of character information, a sturdy imagination, similarly afflicted friends and the ever-present 20-sided dice to play the game...
...they take turns rolling dice and building “towers” of blocks from the results, a crowd of five other first-grade teachers looks on as part of a school program that fosters discussions of lesson plans and their efficacy...
...Quad,” to all) has never escaped its legacy of marginality. Historically it provided a distant home for fringe groups on campus : first women, then eccentrics, then racial minorities. Today, the Quad is as distant and divisive as ever, but the roll of the dice determines which students are exiled there. Although Quad residents no longer have to walk miles to play tennis at six in the morning, as they did in the early days of Radcliffe, College administrators continue to struggle with the inequalities that characterize a limb of Harvard that remains tenuously attached. Dean...