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...game last season, to the Memphis Grizzlies for center Darko Milicic. About three weeks later, Memphis shipped the nine-year veteran to the Los Angeles Clippers for high-scoring forward - and perennial troublemaker - Zach Randolph. Three days after that, the Clips moved Richardson to the Minnesota Timberwolves for three nondescript bench warmers. Finally (we think), on Aug. 13 Minnesota gave Richardson better weather, and a better shot at the postseason, by trading him to Miami for journeyman Mark Blount. TIME chatted with Richardson about his dizzying summer...
Indeed, word of mouth has made the Basij even more fearsome. Stories abound of nondescript locals getting picked up for the flimsiest reasons. One businessman says an associate of his who runs a consulting firm was dragged recently from a flight back to Tehran and then whisked away by security personnel for days of interrogation. These Kafkaesque tales have become a part of everyday life in Iran...
...hand, someone will give us refuge, / Circling left or circling right.” The answer as to what lies behind death has finally arrived, but it is incredibly—and intentionally—vague. However, after seeing Wright’s struggle to describe the present, his nondescript conclusion seems fitting. In his philosophy, capturing the essence of things is more important than the thing itself, and in these last two lines he manages to relate the sense of security.The word “God,” which appears in previous poems, is noticeably absent from...
...rushed through another nondescript Washington office-building lobby, I asked him when he had time to prepare for so many presentations. Zandi shrugged and said, "I don't have to prepare." (Point taken - almost everything he says is a variation on what he said the last time.) The event, a panel discussion hosted by the New America Foundation think tank, had already started, but Zandi slid into an empty chair onstage and seamlessly joined a debate about the Obama Administration's handling of the economy: "The totality of the federal response has been very good. By this time next year...
...Tianyu Natural History Museum doesn't look like the repository of a scientific treasure trove. A nondescript brick building in Pingyi, a secluded town 430 miles (692 km) southwest of Beijing, its doors are guarded by two groggy security guards who spend their day flipping through newspapers and sipping tea. There are no curators or guides giving tours of the museum's 28 exhibit halls, and only a handful of visitors on a Sunday afternoon...