Word: moment
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...Page Seven trial comes at a moment of extraordinary soul-searching for the Illinois justice system. Earlier this month Anthony Porter, who has an IQ of 51, was freed from death row after serving 16 years for a double murder he did not commit. At the time of his trial, Porter could not afford an investigator to work on his case, and his lawyer called a grand total of three defense witnesses. Porter was freed when a Northwestern University journalism class investigated his case and obtained a confession from another man. A key prosecution witness, who later recanted, now says...
...moral struggle that may not have really happened; they make difficult performance look easy, and give weight to casualness. Sargent was that kind of painter, and it seems pointless to rebuke him for it--especially at the end of a century whose art he did not for a moment aspire to change...
...didn't actually watch the fight because I no longer patronize boxing. The last fight I watched was in 1996, when I went to Madison Square Garden to see Riddick Bowe, a black American, fight Andrew Golota, who is a plumber in Poland. Early on, in a moment I can't really explain, I told my friend that it would be "fun to sit with the Polish people." For the next half hour we sang Polish songs and chanted Polish chants. Nationalism is a blast, even if it's not your own country...
...case when our women's basketball team stunned Stanford in the first round of last year's NCAA tournament-the first No. 16 seed in the tournament ever to defeat a top seed in NCAA basketball history. But sometimes a team is special not because of one spectacular moment but because it has consistently dominated its competition for the entire season-a team so far ahead of the pack that it seems almost surreal...
...eerie moment for owners of electronic pagers last May, when 45 million of the units across North America suddenly flickered and died. The blackout was caused not by some routine equipment failure but by a massive storm on the surface of the sun that shorted out an Earth-orbiting communications satellite. Such solar typhoons are not uncommon, and the damage they do can be considerable. Last week NASA announced that it may now be possible to predict the storms and take action to limit their impact...