Word: pit
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...York City in December, preserves the entire 70-ft.-deep basin as a kind of primordial imprint of the towers. Part burnt offering, part wailing wall, the basin testifies to calamity, but it stands--muscular proof that New York lives and life prevails. Libeskind's plan would surround that pit with a force field of angular towers at street level. The workaday world could carry on its business without trampling the memory of the dead...
...tried to introduce the tape - which he says came from a hostage - into evidence, but Gorbacheva declined. "It's just footage of what was happening in the theater hall," he says. "How they lived there under the guns, how they were humiliated when they had to use the orchestra pit as a lavatory." Trunov plans to appeal the case to the Russian Supreme Court, and to the European Court of Human Rights. While acknowledging sympathy with the plaintiffs, Rastorguyev insists that officials are not responsible. If he had said "irresponsible," Trunov would have agreed...
...missile, though 15 died of heart attacks, suffocation in their gas masks or reaction to a chemical-weapon antidote that some took in a panic. Pentagon planners are worried that in a new war, if Saddam again hits Israel with missiles--wishing to ignite a wider conflict that would pit Muslim nations against the U.S. and Israel--Washington would be unable to convince the Israeli government, as it did in 1991, that it should refrain from retaliating. If Israel launched a counterstrike, U.S. officials fear, America's Arab allies would find it difficult to align with Washington...
...POKER PLAYER. Say what you will about Lyle Berman--and people have called him a lot of things: a pit bull, an intimidator, a fearsome competitor--but no one has ever accused him of modesty. Of his casino-development company, Lakes Entertainment Inc., Berman once told reporters, "We're the most successful company in Indian gaming." Because of the secrecy surrounding gambling on Indian reservations, it's impossible to know whether that's true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings...
...window catches my eye, I go in and find it, try it on, admire myself for a few minutes, pretend it’s mine, and put it back on the shelf and leave. And it’s not a problem because the salesgirls aren’t pit bulls like in so many other overpriced stores. They welcome you when you come in and tell you to have a nice day when you leave. Okay, so sometimes they give you dirty looks, but I can deal with that...