Word: lightness
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...Still, Serbia's efforts to shake off its past, however halting they may be, offer some hope. One day Mladic and Karadzic will likely be caught. One day, Serbia's ambitions to join the E.U. will be met. But you did not have to stand last Saturday in a light rain, under a steel-gray sky, and watch a man who had brought so much misery to so many laid to rest while a reverent crowd mourned his passing, to know that in the Balkans, that will take time...
...National Cancer Institute since 2002 (he now plans to retire from that job), Von Eschenbach enters a long-simmering battle. The Bush Administration has so far delayed a decision on whether to approve the emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter use despite a green light from FDA scientists. Critics, including Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who last week vowed to put a hold on his nomination pending an FDA decision, say the agency is compromising science to appease conservatives...
...FEMINIST THEME IN THE ARTISTS YOU CELEBRATE? Yes, I think there is, really. I've always liked kind of independent spirits, because they're not fake. They've kind of accepted the fact that this is the way for them, and they're not going to hide their light. I've always felt myself a little bit outside the mainstream. My parents never told me that there was any other way to be. They always insisted that I was going to work for a living, that I didn't have to get married, that I didn't have to take...
Chandeliers of coconuts and glowing light bulbs dangled from the ceiling as “Guyton\Walker: Empire Strikes Back,” an installation by artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, opened for a five-week exhibition at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts last night...
...megaphone of the media. The premise of direct talks is each side's recognition that the other has a legitimate (or, least, unavoidable) interest and role in shaping events in Iraq - and that the interests of both sides can be better served by coordinating their interventions. And in light of the mounting sectarian political tension, each side has good reason to establish channels of communication for crisis management...