Word: leape
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...Paul Bremer, the U.S. proconsul in Iraq, took the stage and asked if there was anyone in the room more senior than he who could read the President's Thanksgiving message to the troops. There was: George W. Bush himself, who entered on cue, inspiring the stunned soldiers to leap to their feet and cheer. A few hours later, Americans watching television at home heard that their President had made a secret visit to Baghdad to share Thanksgiving dinner with the troops. Scenes of President Bush serving turkey and sweet potatoes to G.I.s saturated the news for the next...
...with computers that offer Internet access, PlayStation on a big-screen TV, pool tables and a jukebox filled with Pink and Avril Lavigne. Beaches Boscobel, a resort in Jamaica, has an arcade with Sega, Xbox and PlayStation, bonfires on the beach and a teens-only disco. After braving the Leap of Faith water slide with a 60-ft. drop at Atlantis in the Bahamas, minors can head to Club Rush, a nightclub with leopard-print couches. Teens aboard Disney's Magic cruise ship can bond in a Friends-style coffeehouse called Common Grounds, shown at left, and then try their...
...said he wasn’t really planning on applying until his Tutors in Eliot House and Professor of Government Michael Sandel encouraged him to take the leap...
...either without being noticed or understood. While it’s unlikely that any production could pull off this act in such a way that its audience could understand everything that was happening, a small decrease in this production’s pace would have led to a great leap in audience comprehension while sacrificing little humor potential...
...some of its players - will leap forward tremendously," says Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, the British sponsorship consultants. That grating sound you hear is the gnashing of Australian teeth. Banking On A Happy Ending This week, time may finally run out for French billionaire François Pinault, the French government and some other top executives in their decade-long legal fight with U.S. prosecutors over Crédit Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from...