Word: gracefully
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...startled even to ask the man for directions. I just started driving, and through some act of divine grace, I ended up back in the Quad. The parking space that I had been towed from, which is the closest one to civilization within the free parking zone, was still available...
...afford it escape the inner city each night to suburban safety, the cold- blooded slaying of Basu touched nerves long numbed by statistics, destroying any notion that only a life of vice could lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist is described by colleagues as a vibrant and outspoken intellectual who doted on her daughter. They recall the endless obstacles she and her husband Biswanath overcame to adopt the little girl named Sarina...
Even as Basu's hideous death was added to the soaring number of carjackings nationwide, Congress was meeting to discuss how to clamp down on the crime. But it was little solace to her family and friends, mute with grief and occupied with the chores of loss. At W.R. Grace, supervisor Nicholas Spencer cleaned out Basu's desk, packed up a dozen snapshots of Sarina, collected her books and removed her coat from the back of the office door. In a drawer he came upon what was to have been a midday snack -- an orange and some crackers. Three boxes...
...economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these have eaten away at the long American smugness, the postwar sense of superiority, of grace...
...differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer the Dream Team, as their swimmers, boxers, spikers and pitchers failed to live up to every high expectation. The Kenyans, as usual, showed all comers how to carry themselves -- and transcend themselves -- with grace...