Word: pit
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...population in the pit is dwarfed by the number of people who make pilgrimages each day to the area around it. It's now a regular stop on New York City tours, just like Chinatown or Times Square. Along the perimeter of the site, people call friends on their cell phones to record their visits. Every 10 ft. on Park Street, on the edge of the red zone, another immigrant vendor peddles N.Y.P.D. and F.D.N.Y. hats, T shirts and scarves. Credentials to the red zone have supplanted tickets to The Producers as the hottest status symbol in New York. Assistants...
...years on the throne, King Bhumibol has made the constitutional monarchy a moral counterpoint to the slime pit of Thai politics. Revered by his subjects as semidivine and for his work among the poor, he intervenes in politics only during times of crisis?most notably ending the bloodshed of the May 1992 democracy uprising. He prefers giving advice to Premiers in private. So, as Thaksin and his ministers sat in the Dusidalai Throne Hall awaiting the King's annual birthday address to the nation, they were expecting the usual sermon on development peppered with parables and gentle jibes. Instead, Bhumibol...
...balmy, autumn midnight of Stephen Smith’s freshman year, he and his roommates were on their way back to Pennypacker after a riotous night of Harvard bar-hopping . Unsolicited, two pit-like girls approached the cadre of boys, set their longing gazes on Stephen, and propositioned him for a little menage-à-trois...
...can’t believe Gossip Guy knew about the time I took the homeless, cracked-out pit girl home! Verily, he is All-Seeing, All-Knowing...
...applaud city’s efforts to reach at-risk individuals in the Square and to include the Pit within the umbrella of many existing social service programs. It is only through more attention to the Pit, rather than attempts to close it down, that tragedies such as Nachtwey’s death can be avoided in the future...