Word: franticness
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...After a morning of frantic negotiation, Netanyahu on Friday appeared to have backed off from his refusal to sign a peace deal unless he could take Pollard home with him. Israel "de-linked" the issues, giving Clinton the space to release Pollard at a later point. The problem, says Thompson, is that Israeli brinkmanship on the issue has created a situation where even a future release of Pollard may carry a domestic political cost...
...closed fist of a heart may put audiences at a distance; and 174 minutes is a lot of time to spend with four troubled souls moseying toward inevitability. But the popularity of pizazzy Hollywood melodrama should not mean that the only movie pace is four-on-the-floor frantic. Beloved has a pulse that beats slower because the hearts of its characters are heavier; but that pulse is evidence of complex people sifting through the ashes of a national tragedy, trying to find meaning and a reason to hope...
...front page. Upper-class students, who no longer have to schlep back and forth to the river for their noontime nourishment, were exuberant. Perhaps caught up in this unbridled enthusiasm, The Crimson lost its wits, portraying the sole beneficiaries of the bag lunches to be "time-pressed undergraduates." Undoubtedly, frantic pre-meds with five minutes to spare between orgo and B.S. reap the benefits of the program...
...online magazine Salon represented a knife in the heart of compromise. The House G.O.P. leadership fired off a letter to the FBI asking it to investigate the White House for trying to intimidate lawmakers, without being able to prove it was behind it. The White House put out frantic calls to its Hill Democrats trying to assure them that it hadn't leaked the story--Podesta called Hyde himself--but as spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, the perception in Washington is that "the White House lies about everything; our credibility is zero...
Even early on, a 1-0 advantage appeared enough for a victory, as Harvard's backs rarely allowed the Eagles a shot on goal, particularly in the first half. B.C. took eight shots in the game, most of which came in its frantic second-half effort to get back into the game...