Word: nigh
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When Afsana, an 18-year-old Muslim living on the outskirts of the Gujarati capital of Ahmadabad, heard last Wednesday that a Muslim mob had torched a train, the Sabarmati Express, at Godhra, she was appalled - and very, very frightened. She knew that revenge would be nigh. Her neighborhood, Naroda, is largely Hindu. On the day after the Godhra killings, local Hindu leaders gathered a crowd of 2,000 residents and gave them simple instructions: Muslims had to be destroyed. When part of the mob reached Afsana's house, she fled with her five-year-old brother to a Hindu...
...terrorist mastermind's own movements are likely to depend on his game plan - if he'd always intended to go down fighting in Afghanistan, there's a good chance his end is nigh. On the other hand, al Qaeda meticulously plans its operations years in advance, and the recent sequence of events has been quite predictable, particularly to someone who knows the Taliban's limits and capabilities as well as bin Laden does. If the Saudi terrorist wasn't fixing to die in Afghanistan, it's unlikely that he'd have waited this long before slipping away...
...village in Henan province two years ago so that she could teach the life of Jesus. Suddenly, the women vanished and a man entered. For the next five days he refused to let her leave and forced her to debate the Bible. He said the day of judgment is nigh. Jesus has returned. China?the Great Red Dragon from the Book of Revelations?faces destruction. By the end, "I was dizzy. I was confused. He knew the Bible so well," says Sister Hong. Her pleading, plus promises to return, finally won her release. Lightning had struck again...
...wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, state and local politics have taken a back seat to national concerns. Now that election day is nigh, however, candidates embroiled in major races in New York City, New Jersey and Virginia are hoping that voters will direct their attention to their nearest voting booth - at least for a few minutes...
...could keep grinding out meticulous, and well-nigh flawless, gangster movies; it's the genre closest to his heart. But To and Wai, who serves as writer, co-producer and co-director, don't care to be cult figures. They're in business. Movies cost money and in Hong Kong, beset by movie piracy, the brain drain and the overall artistic glums, only 5% of all films released last year earned a profit. Wai and To want to be in that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier...