Word: exaction
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...says her priest name is Mother Bernadette Mary. And, she adds, her exact title is now archdeacon. "Basically, I do all the things that other priests do, allowing for the fact that I have two children," she says. "Obviously my children come first. So I do what I can. [But] I don't do marriages. The reason I don't do marriages is that people tend to want me to do them because I'm a pop star. It's the Al Green syndrome--everyone wants Al Green to marry them because he's Al Green...
...only barely. Albright had to light a fire under both men. Barak and Arafat are still far apart on critical aspects of a peace treaty, such as the exact boundary lines of a new Palestinian state, how many Palestinian refugees will be allowed to return (both to the new entity and to Israel), and who controls Jerusalem (both sides want it as their capital). At least for public consumption, Barak and Arafat each insist they're the one doing all the compromising and the other guy's being stubborn. U.S. diplomats, as one put it, keep hearing the same line...
Marvin B. Tagaban, a member of the Class Day committee that invited O'Brien, said the speech had the exact comedic touch the selection committee was looking for after last year's more dry address by former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R.-Ariz...
With plenty of money in its coffers--$15.2 billion to be exact--Harvard has forged ahead this year with ambitious construction plans, while nabbing what space it could on both sides of the Charles River...
...pinpoint the exact date it started, but I know that by March 1--the day I left my room to turn in my thesis--I could not see anything farther than two feet in front of me. Two feet was the distance of my computer monitor from my chair. When I tried any activity beyond that radius, my "concussion" returned with a vengeance...