Word: overrunning
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Moreover, House spirit is uneven, and some simple additions can change that. Lowell and Quincy House dining halls are just as overrun by Quadlings for lunch as Adams ever was, but no one sees us starting a war. Why? Perhaps it is because Adams and Pforzheimer Houses have open e-mail lists, which served as the staging ground in the all-out fight for dining hall rights. Virtual community builds real community; more Houses should take up the cue, either with e-mail or Web-based House forums...
...embassy in Belgrade, a mistake for which the U.S. apologized many times, the Chinese encouraged street protests in Beijing which threatened the lives of the U.S. ambassador and his family. The situation became so dire that embassy personnel began destroying classified documents for fear that the compound would be overrun. It took personal pleas from high ranking U.S. officials for the Chinese to actually step in and protect the embassy compound. Last but not least, China continues to threaten Taiwan by expanding its surface-to-surface missile capabilities...
...full of people. Or you move down crowded passages that are empty on your screen. All the while, Cardiff reminisces and riffs as bursts of music rise and fall. In no time, her fantasies are inseparable from your own internal noise. The borders of your consciousness are slyly overrun. More fun than a funhouse excursion, as intimate as Molly's soliloquy in Ulysses, it's a work that places all your synapses on a new kind of high alert. Is this the future of digital art? Then let a thousand digits bloom...
...however, I am constantly surprised by Cambridge. When you walk away from the River, up one of the familiar signposts streets--Oxford, Garden, Cambridge--you enter into another world. One where real families live, where there are markets and laundromats, corner cafs and bars for locals, church services not overrun by Harvard sorts of concerns. There is character to this city of ours, and almost none of it mirrors the concerns of the Square...
...staggering cost overrun has forced the resignation of house speaker Jeff Groscost and prompted a criminal probe by state attorney general Janet Napolitano. She cautions, however, that "stupidity, incompetence and greed are not violations...