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Miller ended up wearing a long, beige lacy dress with sewn-on flowery beads--a get-up he described the dress as the height of "1930's elegance." His hair was curled into little twirls at the sides, and he also wore bright red nail polish...
...with less than seven minutes to play, the Warriors finished the kill. Substitute forward Shawn Cassella--given six inches in height, a dead ringer for U.S. international defender Fernando Clavijo--caught the Crimson too far forward just as Kohler had beaten Hartwick earlier, getting by Harvard's defense and finishing past substitute keeper Ben Weeden...
...information from nasty people and supporting or encouraging the nasty things they do," says an intelligence official. In line with that policy, intelligence sources insist Constant was paid only for information, and none of the money was intended to finance FRAPH. An analogy drawn repeatedly in Washington: at the height of the cold war, the CIA was paying many double agents employed by the Soviet KGB, but that hardly means the CIA was bankrolling...
...world community had promised to never allow genocide again; it formalized that pledge in the Genocide Convention. It broke its promise again. But really, what could have been done? It's easy to scream for a solution, harder to find one. When the killing was at its height, nothing short of an occupation would have helped. When the camps were teeming with refugees, the nations did mount a massive aid campaign, which started late but eventually saved thousands of lives...
...came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers. So this was no reckless appraisal...