Word: lone
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Junior Brendan Sullivan scored the lone goal against International and also tallied an assist in the Atlantic...
...Manhattan street kid into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world of characters as clever and without conscience as she. A coven of rich, carnivorous old ladies is both scammed upon and scamming, but can its doddering members really have anything to do with...
...tactic. At home that is not so remarkable. Political reality routinely demands compromise. And to be sure, Clinton has shown flashes of political courage and persistence, most notably in winning passage of NAFTA. But in the exercise of military power, and especially when one leads the world's lone superpower, retreat is contemptible. Consider the two other showcases of horror Clinton pledged to redress before Haiti. "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit idly by and watch it happen," said the President about Bosnia. That of course is exactly what...
...lone woman on the Times op-ed page, Anna Quindlen for years effectively managed to convey a voice that combined elements of the personal with the more public realm. She has been both praised and criticized for her style, one that raises questions about women's writing and its place in traditional male arenas. Was Quindlen's voice a refreshing addition to the Times, or a reinforcement of the stereotype that a woman only writes about the private sphere...
Delegates at the United Nations Population Conference ended the confab by unanimously approving a 20-year plan to curb birth rates -- sort of. The lone dissenter, the Vatican's delegate, actually voted for the plan too, but Archbishop Renato Martino said he could not endorse parts of the plan that recognized "abortion as a dimension of population policy and primary health care." Says TIME Senior Writer Eugene Linden in Cairo: "Nobody here understands the Vatican's vote. There's no precedent for it." So why did the Holy See have a change of heart? "The anger and the ridicule among...