Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Government, which usually employ furloughs to gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
...intended India's quick response to underscore New Delhi's growing military role in southern Asia. He may have the chance to make the point again. Domestic dissatisfaction with the Gayoom regime, which does not allow opposition, is substantial, and Maldives may attract other visitors with more on their mind than scuba diving...
...devising a story, therefore, the first thing that comes to my mind is an image," explained Italo Calvino, Italy's master fabulist, shortly before his death in 1985. Some of his images -- like that of the boy philosophe who scrambled up an oak and never descended again in The Baron in the Trees -- became the emblems of masterpieces. But Calvino also crafted stories from even more pared-down beginnings. He built that dazzling picaresque of the mind, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, from just the thought of an activity: reading. The protagonist has every book he begins...
...Mike Addesa: The highly-opinionated and large-framed coach of the RPI Engineers is never afraid to speak his mind. Last year, he earned the ECAC's Best Quote of the Year when asked about Harvard's standout defenseman Don Sweeney, now in the Boston Bruin organization...
...ridiculous mistakes. In a hockey story once, I said the Beanpot Tournament--the February battle between Harvard, Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern--was being held in Madison Square Garden. Why a bunch of Boston-area schools would play a tournament in New York City apparently never crossed my mind...