Word: nest
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Sonsie is not for wan women or frail society ladies of delicate constitutions. This is a frantic nest of raucousness, but also a colorful pageant of the elegant and the dodgy, offering a dining experience which demands that you contend with outlandish decor, menu exotica and a congested and tortuous layout...
...beef satay, “shumai” and Thai “tempura” on the menu? We passed on the motley appetizers and each just ordered an entrée of just-manageable proportions. Reworking a perennial favorite, their Crispy Pad Thai ($8.95) was a scraggly nest of brittle threads strewn with shrimp, chicken, bean sprouts, scallions, egg and ground peanuts, sweet and sticky and sour, the whole inescapably recalling peanut butter (which, to me, is a good thing). The Rad-Na (wide rice) Noodles ($7.95/8.95) were to all appearances a facsimile of a staple Singaporean...
...avail. Her degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago have not bailed her out, nor has her minority status. "Diversity in hiring has fallen away as a priority," she notes. Quan, single and in her 40s, has only a few months' worth of living expenses left in her nest egg. Yet she has turned down jobs that she feels don't fit her career goals, and she is thinking of going solo as a consultant. Says she: "I think taking the job just for the money or doing something I really hate could do more damage, psychologically, than good...
...Qaeda sniper in particular was getting on Perez's nerves. Hiding 500 yards away, he'd come out shooting--and he seemed to be spotting for a mortar unit. He'd wave and flip his middle finger at the Americans before ducking back inside his stone nest. He continued to elude U.S. fire until Perez teamed up with Sergeant Jerry Higley, another squad leader. Their M-4s didn't have magnifying scopes, and the distance and rising trajectory of their bullets made hitting the sniper a challenge. So the two sergeants began working together. Higley squeezed off rounds as Perez...
...Islamists morphed into their current incarnation as the "Supporters of Islam," which almost certainly includes members who trained in terrorism at al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. Bin Laden probably recruited men from among Ansar disciples. Today Ansar may well include some al-Qaeda fighters looking for a new nest. Kurdish officials say the group has swollen to around 700, but U.S. intelligence puts the number at a little over...