Word: pinning
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...them where they work? Addressing the possibility that the anthrax scare is a follow-up to the attack on the World Trade Center, Vice President Dick Cheney wondered aloud, "Are they related? We don't know. We don't have enough evidence to be able to pin down that kind of connection. But...we have to be suspicious...
...community atmosphere was palpable. Each person who stepped up to the mic was greeted by name before they introduced themselves, was supported throughout their performance, with pin-drop silence when necessary and with noisy sympathy when someone stumbled or felt the need to start over. There were more hugs, from different people, as each performer made their way back into the audience. The theme of the night was hair, as the Association of Black Harvard Women was launching their new photojournal that also focused on the same subject, and Toussaint Losier’s photos decorated the walls...
...fighters float through to spy and resupply. Every Afghan faction has its representative in some dim house. Intelligence agents linger in the lobby of the Pearl Continental Hotel, where the phones are tapped and drivers let fall scraps of information. Places like this are where the operatives who can pin a real-time target on bin Laden must be recruited or bought or blackmailed. But the terrorists have their agents here too, looking for those who are looking for them...
...difficult to pin down exactly what makes the videos of Iranian-born Neshat so astonishing. Part of their freshness must be that they offer a view of a life few Westerners understand, in a way that emphasizes its beauty and passion rather than its oppression. But her work is not simple reportage. The people in her videos are vehicles for expressing universal human emotions: desire, love, grief, loneliness...
...more than ever, it’s abundantly clear that the strength of America is our people,” said Gore, who sported an American flag pin on his jacket, as well as the full beard he grew this summer...