Word: lingerer
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...blocks of shops in Old Melville include a couple of fantastic used-book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge, pictured. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
...blocks of shops in Old Melville include a couple of fantastic used-book stores. After browsing for forgotten classics, eat Thai (Soi is a favorite), Indian, Greek or Ethiopian (the newly opened Abyssinica), or have a drink at the Mozambican-flavored Xai Xai Lounge. If you don't linger you can catch a show at the Market Theatre in artsy Newtown...
Where Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes, controversy seems to follow--and linger. The Somali-born activist, named to 2005's TIME 100 for her campaign against Islamic extremism, quit the Dutch Parliament in May after being told she would be stripped of citizenship for lying on her 1992 application for asylum. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk flip-flopped last week, saying Hirsi Ali's citizenship was safe. But the Dutch coalition government was not, and collapsed amid discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd...
...onto Broadway. In the context of the Thatcherite eighties, the play focuses around eight students from a north English grammar school seeking admission to the world’s most exclusive and competitive educational institutions. Pressured from the school administration and attracted primarily by the behemoth of reputation, they linger at school beyond their final examinations for extra classes in preparation for admission interviews and papers...
...when they talk about "the Incident," as they unfailingly call it, the Dixie Chicks try to write it off as an absurdity. Maines has powerful gusts of indignation and real disdain for a few right-wing websites and talk-show hosts, but what seems to linger most is disappointment in her pre-controversy self. "I think I'd gotten too comfortable living my life," she says. "I didn't know people thought about us a certain way--that we were Republican...