Word: loudnesses
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With more than 400 cases of SARS, Hong Kong is second only to China as a hotbed of the disease. Some medical officials had called for the rugby event's cancellation, warning that SARS is spread by saliva droplets--in rich supply when you pack tens of thousands of loud, hard-drinking rugby fans together. But the games went ahead, with 25,000 fans attending Saturday...
Amidst the loud banter in the room, Kabala relates the nature of their relationship with an anecdote. “My favorite war story. Chris Matthews went up to Reagan and said, ‘Mr. President, this is where we plot against you,’ and Reagan said, ‘Okay, but after six, we’re friends.’ These guys may have been at a sit-in while I was dropping Salients off at Massachusetts Hall, but after six, we’re friends...
Despite the attempts of all of these rooming groups to leave politics at the door, ideology still manages to enter into the equation, often leading to hours of debate. For Adelman and Jobbins, this means loud and obnoxious dining hall conversations that make those around them “mad awkward...
...thought there was no way we could lose. I was concentrating mostly on not snickering out loud about how Wasserstein had told me before the match that he was “clearly” better than Kenyon and me. Now, Larry was definitely better than both of us. If Ben W. was also better than us, then why was his team’s collective ass getting kicked so relentlessly by the foot of Weaver and Mathis...
...enforce its own resolutions. Bush should not have given the Security Council the chance to render itself so useless. When political advisers tell future presidents about the lessons of the run-up to the second war with Iraq, it will be that Bush was too much of a loud dove, and not enough of a secretive Machiavelli...