Word: disarrayed
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...belongings in disarray, he mentions that he hasn’t even packed. He cracks more jokes. Asked to describe his high school self, he says how he played clarinet, and also wrestled for three years: “I wasn’t very good at it. Pretty bad, actually.” Explaining his “eclectic” musical tastes, he says he likes a lot of Irish and folk music, and Hindi music as well. Commercial music, he says, feels processed and “very refined,” but English or American...
TURKMENISTAN A Slice of the Pie A long-awaited summit on dividing the oil-rich Caspian Sea between its five surrounding states ended in complete disarray. The Caspian's status is still governed by a 1940 agreement between the U.S.S.R. and Iran, and the summit was meant to end a decade of bitter squabbling. But the meeting failed to adopt even a planned declaration after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami walked out and Turkmenistan accused Azerbaijan of intransigence over a disputed oil field. "More problems emerged than expected," admitted Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
...Captain’s tunic. With time and the Captain’s growing madness, the order within the set begins to slacken. By the end of the second act, when the Captain throws a desk lamp at Laura in rage, the room has begun to slip into disarray...
...picture, the sad reality is that it could also get worse—a lot worse. Although capable leaders abound on both sides, it is unlikely that these leaders will come to power anytime soon. Israel’s hopes lie in the Labor Party, which is currently in disarray and unlikely to win the next election. A more likely successor to Sharon is former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is making a political comeback with the support of Israel’s fanatical settler movement. It is hard to believe that Sharon could be more moderate than anyone...
...three-year rule of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Taliban, who belong to the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan, had mercilessly persecuted the Uzbek and Hazara ethnic minorities. After the city fell, they hauled up guns hidden under the floorboards and took revenge as the Taliban forces fled in disarray. "From the houses, the Uzbeks were picking off the Taliban stragglers," said an Islamabad-based aid worker in contact with the northern Afghan city...