Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once it was easy to pass over a story like David Thibodeau's. He says he saw the shiny thing embedded in a wall of the chapel in the Branch Davidian compound, where he took refuge with fellow believers. It was the middle of a lull between government tear-gas assaults, and in the calm, Thibodeau studied the thing. "It was the size of a Coke can," he says. "Silver, stainless steel in color. There were three fins on the back. It was some kind of projectile." Before he could look more closely, however, the screech of tanks started...
...less peculiar: a new President is about to be sworn in amid charges that the government has switched control of the canal to a company allegedly controlled by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The catfight over that is just a preview. The canal handover--the U.S. will pass the waterway over to Panama at noon on Dec. 31--is unleashing political separation anxiety in the U.S. and everything from panic to greed in Panama. Le Carre must be amused...
Then there are my blockmates, who specialize in, well, doing nothing. One of them (he has no thesis and two pass-fail courses) alternates between sitting on his ass and going around talking about how he has to go do some more "sitting...
...lackadaisical? "I'm taking three courses. I only need to pass two of them to graduate. It's awesome...
...understand it, you've asked about my girth. I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is, yes, I have lost some flab. Not only could I pass the standards of losing 7 lbs., I could have passed the standards of losing 15 unsightly ones. (O.K., I made this part...