Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abbey in search of Karadzic. "Can you imagine if we came to your church with tanks?" he says. "They can come and take me to the Hague, and I'd welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes on the gusle, a primitive, one-stringed instrument that produces a noise akin to the bleating of sheep, Djogo says, "All Herzegovina will rise to defend...
...decided to try something new. We have lived an hour away from Los Angeles for ten years, but we rarely visit. (Irvine and its neighbors are technically suburbs, but they are cities themselves, and most people do not commute). So a couple of weeks ago, we decided to go downtown. I, for one, was surprised by what we found...
...Downtown Los Angeles has a bad reputation, but its business district is full of beautiful, architecturally amazing buildings. Most of the new and unique structures date back only to the 1980s when, I assume, the knowledge required to build earthquake-safe skyscrapers first combined with economic prosperity to make such construction possible. And public art is everywhere...
Pardon me then when I was disturbed to learn that one of Peoria's most famous and accepted social institutions is a strip club. Big Al's, a "world-famous gentleman's club" located in the middle of downtown, features "the world's most beautiful women," fine cigars, cognac, a lunchtime buffet and Wednesday night wet T-shirt contests...
...stocked up on raisins, trail mix and batteries and bought $11 worth of burgers and fries from the Burger King in his hometown of Murphy, N.C. The trail had gone stone cold. And then on July 11, George Nordmann, 71, owner of the Better Way health-food store in downtown Andrews, only about 10 miles from Murphy, confessed to a Macon County sheriff's deputy that Rudolph had come to his house asking for food four days before. "Homer, you're not going to believe this," deputy Kenny Cope told his boss, Sheriff Homer Holbrooks...