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...That first day is a blur of instruction and farce as seven men and one woman try to grasp the basics of paddling in unison and in the same direction. "Easy forward," we quickly learn, is the command we will most enjoy; "Hard forward!" is the call that will exhaust our arms and propel us over rapids and submerged rocks. "Go left!" and "Go right!" involve two paddlers throwing themselves across the raft - and usually onto their fellow paddlers with varying degrees of injury - while I will become the first of the trip to obey the "Dive!' command, flinging myself...
...high stakes game continues. While prospects for a peaceful outcome at Najaf persist, its attainment will depend in large part on Moqtada Sadr's sense of timing - and his, and Allawi's, grasp of the maxim that "politics is the art of the possible...
...speculation. Relating trial accounts of two drug-laced dinner parties at the couple's home in the days before Cinque's death, where Singh declared her desire to commit suicide and take him with her, the author asks: "Did Joe Cinque have his wits about him long enough to grasp what was going on? Anu Singh must know, but she wasn't talking...
...article quoted Christine Lee, a black second-year HLS student at the time: “He’s willing to talk to them [the conservatives] and he has a grasp of where they are coming from, which is something a lot of blacks don’t have and don’t care to have...
...focused these days on something bigger. Reflecting on nearly three decades of Riversleigh exploration, "We were at first knocked out," he says, "by the simple, stunning biodiversity that we were finding." But in using Riversleigh to track the evolution of local fauna over millions of years, Archer began to grasp its predictive power. Riversleigh, he says, has changed ideas about which creatures should be seen as endangered. Here, the news is good, bad . . . and dire. The koala, for example, appears safer than conservationists had imagined. Its population and habitat have shrunk in the two centuries since European settlement. "But when...