Word: hammer
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...Bush to sign off on the Doha round expires in July 2007. That means any agreement that isn't reached by the end of next year could be killed by the U.S. Congress. Hong Kong, a place that epitomizes the benefits of free trade, provides an opportunity to hammer out some of the disagreements so that a deal can be wrapped up in time. Even if the conference fails to produce the outlines of an accord, as now looks probable, it may not be an outright failure. The big question is whether Lamy manages to persuade the delegates to keep...
...dynamic range and suppressed lyrical sensuality. The audience didn’t have to wait too long to get what they wanted, however, and when the climax finally came, Daniel and company made it last for the rest of the night. As soon as drummer Jim Eno began to hammer in the intro to “I Turn My Camera On,” the crowd howled in unison and commenced the shoulder-driven dancing the beautiful song demands. With crowd energy at a maximum, Spoon raged through a sizeable chunk of “Fiction” that...
...evidence suggests it was invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate New York.” The game has gained a strong following, mostly at Dartmouth, Colby and Middlebury Colleges, and now, apparently, Eliot House. To play, one needs a hammer, a bag of nails, plenty of beer, and, obviously, a tree stump. Ben B. Collins ’06, Eliot’s Stein Club co-chair, got his stump at summer camp, after some trees got struck by lightning. The log remnant Collins brought back now resides...
...remaking of a nation? In one sense, the answer is simple. Mandela and De Klerk perfectly meet the first precondition of peacemakers: they do not like each other very much. Harmony is only intermittently an issue between friends; the intractable messes of human coexistence are left for enemies to hammer out. In attempting to do this most difficult thing, Mandela and De Klerk have been forced into a fascinating pas de deux, coordinating their steps while not so secretly resenting the necessity of their partnership. ''Mandela and De Klerk,'' says A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus, ''were delivered to each other...
...title track starts in the bowels of the earth and reaches a perilously high crescendo, tumbling down in a beautiful mess that beats on head and heart like a hammer: a five-minute crystallization of Lightning Bolt’s sound...