Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Every time I go out that door in the evening and walk across to vote and that dome is lighted, I get goose bumps. I think, 'I work there,' and it's very awesome...
...NCAA Women's Final Four, have a number of people betting that a league can succeed. "What we saw at the Olympics was the U.S. Women's Dream Team drawing the largest crowds in the history of women's basketball, 35,000 for the final game in the Georgia Dome, which is a lot for a traditionally second-tier sport," says TIME's Sally B. Donnelly. "The ABL is betting that if 35,000 people will come to see a game, many more will watch it on television." For fans who don't believe a game without...
...charge: "Muslims say the tunnel cuts under their compound and call it a crime against Islam." It doesn't and it isn't. The Washington Post explained that "it should come as no surprise that violent passions were aroused by Israel's tampering with the ground beneath the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque." No ground beneath either shrine was touched (as noted, ironically enough, on the same day on the Post's op-ed page by archaeological scholar Hershel Shanks...
...addition, the dome is being recoppered in front...
...Arcadia" refers to the stately pleasure dome Sidley Park, built by a shrewd but merry widow in Derbyshire, England, in 1809. Its inhabitants include her precocious daughter, Thomasina (Gretchen Cleevely), who is busily deducing the physics of heat without the use of mathematics and to the astonishment of her dashing tutor, Septimus (Conner Trinneer), a craggy landscaper who wishes to redesign Arcadia in a more gothic style, including a hermitage and a rented hermit, and Ezra Chater (Stephen Temperley), a second-rate poet. Oh, and Lord Byron also wanders about the premises, though, sadly, off-stage...