Word: late
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson’s comeback trail ended there. Harvard failed to generate any offensive opportunities throughout the fourth quarter, until Winters drove the ball down the field late in the frame, only to fall short by a matter of inches...
Capuano seeks to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 in August. This endorsement from the nation’s first female Speaker of the House is an important advantage in the race against opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley who, if elected, would be the eighteenth woman to serve in Congress and the state’s first female U.S. Senator...
...Taliban knows that time is the indispensable ally of the indigenous insurgent facing a foreign army. Its forces were scattered during the U.S. invasion in late 2001 and only began to reassert themselves almost four years later. Yet today they effectively control vast and growing swaths of territory, making it extremely difficult for the U.S. to turn the civilian population into reliable allies. Given the limits of U.S. control on the ground and the expectation that, sooner or later, like the Russians, the Americans will leave, many ordinary Afghans see little incentive to risk their lives in supporting...
...late October, Ahmadinejad was sounding pretty confident. He portrayed the International Atomic Energy Agency's proposal for an enrichment of Iran's nuclear fuel outside the country as a win for the Islamic Republic. Furthermore, the Iranian President's rhetoric was unusually conciliatory towards the U.S. and its allies. "Today, the conditions are ripe for nuclear cooperation at international levels," he concluded. The proposed agreement in the Vienna talks, he declared, showed that the country was "moving in the right direction." (See pictures of IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei at work...
...late October, the regional government of Extremadura in southwestern Spain launched a new sexual-education campaign designed to facilitate the "development of healthy habits, self-esteem and safety." Although the publicly funded campaign includes the publication of pamphlets and an online magazine, the highlight is a series of workshops for 14-to-17-year-olds aimed at educating participants on anatomy, body image, safe-sex practices, gender equality and, in the mildly celebratory words of an early press release (since redacted), "sexual self-exploration and erotic self-knowledge." Or, in other words, masturbation. (See a TIME cover story...