Word: forte
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...that was fine by me. I was among friends, all of us were cognizant that, just down-state a bit, the Sox batterymates were reporting to Fort Meyers, and in just a few weeks sportswriters coast-to-coast would be predicting that the scarlet hose were all seat to unseat the accursed Yankees in the AL East. Young Theo had had a helluva rookie Hot Stove season, what with adding Curt and Kevin, and we were...
...addition to meeting with respected leaders and celebrities such as Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Alicia Keys, Chris Tucker and Jesse Jackson, Gates also interviewed the not-so-famous, such as Army Sergeant Major Kenneth Wilcox, based at Fort Benning in Georgia, and Kalais Chiron Hunt (a.k.a. Eric Edwards), a prisoner in Chicago’s Cook County Jail...
...only recently won a long battle for permission to build it. Rising cost projections, from $43 million in 1998 to $58 million - partly due to the need to make the facility secure from militant animal-rights protesters - led the university to declare that it could not afford to "build Fort Knox." Electoral Impasse IRAN President Mohammed Khatami said that efforts to resolve the crisis over parliamentary elections had reached a dead end after the hard-line Guardian Council refused to rescind bans on thousands of mainly reformist candidates. Officials had called for the election to be postponed, but the Council...
...strongest unifying force among most black voters is a shared rage against Bush. That resentment was ignited during the Florida recount fiasco, which many blacks perceived as rigged against them in all too familiar ways. Says four-term Georgia state senator Vincent Fort: "After Florida and four years of an extreme right-wing agenda, after seeing George W. Bush lay a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. and then turn around and go back to Washington and appoint a [Mississippi judge] Charles Pickering [Sr.] to the federal bench--I think the African-American voter will be energized...
...spim problem is just starting to explode. Ferris Research estimates that twice as much spim was sent in 2003 as in 2002. Though people receive far more spam than spim, spim can be even more annoying. "It pops up and distracts you," says Casey McArdle, a graduate student in Fort Wayne, Ind., who says he gets about one spim a day. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete...