Word: kites
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...persistent requests for Reagan's precise temperature, Speakes said, "It was below a hundred yesterday. It's below 'below a hundred' today." ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson kept asking why reporters could not interview Reagan's doctors after they gave their briefings to the press corps. "Go fly a kite," Speakes replied to the audience. Asked if he was wearying, Speakes said, "I'm not tired, I'm just tired of you people." U.P.I. Correspondent Helen Thomas shot back, "Why don't you send in a pinch hitter who can talk...
Monday, April 11. Khaled Hosseini reads from The Kite Runner. 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Admission free...
Jackson's lead attorney is a big name from Los Angeles, Thomas Mesereau. His sharp cross- examination at times irritated the judge but often landed. He got the accuser's sister to backtrack on key testimony, and turned another witness, former Jackson crisis-control expert Ann Marie Kite, into a voice for the defense...
...yesterday," he said, "and 500 today." The family members who survived plan to leave the coast forever. "Since my childhood, I've known nothing more closely than the sea," Subash says. "Now I hate it." --With reporting by Aravind Adiga/Kahawa; John Dickerson/ Washington; Ilya Garger, Neil Gough and Hanna Kite/ Hong Kong; Robert Horn/ Bangkok; Zamira Loebis/ Banda Aceh; Andrew Marshall/Khao Lak; Alex Perry/ Tamil Nadu; Ulla Plon/ Copenhagen; Sonja Steptoe/ Los Angeles; Aatish Taseer/ London; and Jason Tedjasukmana/ Jakarta...
...deactivated and poured into a 13-meter steel tank of methyl isocyanate (MIC). The water caused a superheated reaction, turning the MIC into a deadly gas; the tank ruptured, breaking clean through its concrete housing; and 27 tons of MIC was released into the gentle southerly breeze that made kite-flying Bhopal's favorite sport. Over the next weeks, months and years, Chand and 15,247 others died?often blinded, and poisoned or drowned as the gas turned to liquid in their lungs?and a further 572,173 out of a population that was then 900,000 needed treatment...