Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were so many lists circulating, like the dreaded lists of the war dead, except these were survivor lists, and parents were desperate to see, hear anything, called out names, searched for their kids' friends to find out if they knew anything. They called homes, called hospitals, called anywhere they could think. Some of the kids who fled the school early on had gone into hiding at their friends' houses, in such shock that it was hours before they made contact with their parents...
...Ground troops are not the answer. There is no way in hell to save this ill-conceived operation except to withdraw in shame now." ULRICH H. RUDOFSKY Delmar...
...imagine the thought that crept into Fidel Castro's mind sometime last year: "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great New York Yankees!" Except of course that would be embarrassing, since the Yankees are paying quite a bit of money to the Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez. And so the thought became "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great Baltimore Orioles!" And on March 28 it was so, when an Orioles team featuring some of the highest-priced talent in the bigs went down to Havana and became the first Major League Baseball...
Anybody's, of course, except whoever happens to be running against Harvard in the 4.x 400 women's sprint relay this weekend. After blowing the Harvard record out of the water at Penn Relays, the relay team of co-captain Heather Hanson, sophomore Brenda Taylor, senior Lee Shearer, and sophomore Marna Schutte will make a go at the Heps record...
...anything of us, aren't playing to us. They're not even always likable: Isa's rough-and-readiness can quickly acquire a shrill, desperate edge, and Marie is generally painful to watch. The two live in an apartment Marie (somewhat unofficially) looks after; the owners all perished except for a comatose girl, whose diary captivates Isa. Both in their early 20s, both living hand to mouth, perpetually between jobs, they strike up a friendship whose ups and downs are here faithfully and skillfully recorded...