Word: minuses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with Mullah Omar and the Taliban gone, the same group of warlords—minus a few notable exceptions—are back to their old tricks. Do not be fooled by those pictures of Hamid Karzai posing with George Bush and Tony Blair. Everyone in Afghanistan knows that real power resides with people like Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek warlord who controls Mazar-i-Sharif; Ishmael Khan, ruler of Herat and recipient of Iranian tanks and money; and the exiled Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a religious fanatic who currently resides in Iran but who is rumored to be staging a comeback...
...Hoping to find out that the D-minus I got on my Rome of Augustus midterm was a mistimed April Fool’s prank...
...York Times, Time and Newsweek, a.k.a., the “CBS crowd.” Had you purchased the Red Sox, imagine what type of p.r. you’d have then! The cover of Sports Illustrated! ESPN.com! Even Maxim would have written about you—minus the nine-page photo spread...
Hanks scored 19 of Dartmouth’s 42 points. Her team shot 24.6 percent, making it impossible for the Big Green to catch the Crimson. The team minus Hanks shot just 19.1 percent...
Ruggiero, who tied for the tournament lead in plus-minus, was named the tournament’s best defenseman following the game. St. Pierre, who made 25 saves, was named the top goaltender...