Word: plaines
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...great thing was the food. Some people have said that the diet of soup and popsicles was unsatisfying, but these people are crazy. What’s better than soup? At every meal? Even if one tired of soup there were two flavors of popsicle—cherry and plain...
...Actor Ross Bennet Hurwitz is left in drag in the role of Bianca for the whole show, an odd move that seems to invite the audience to find gender commentaries in a production that claims to preference other themes. But beyond all else, we are left with a relatively plain production of “Shrew” that, despite some charming directorial flourishes from Bensussen, falls flat...
While no one yet knows what ignited Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous rage on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5, at Fort Hood, the kindling was hiding in plain sight. The Army had ordered Hasan, wrestling with the conflicting demands of being a soldier, a psychiatrist and a Muslim, to the post with the highest toll of Army suicides. Fort Hood is one of the Army's most stressed posts because of its units' revolving-door deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Finally, the Army made clear that Hasan couldn't escape his own pending deployment to Afghanistan, where he'd have...
...that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like in real life. Yet despite Georgia’s decisive modernity, I am still the brunt of redneck jokes, all the more outlandish because I am not red, or even white, but just plain brown...
...Tehran, protesters gathered in the large Vali Asr and Haft e Tir squares in the central section of the capital. Footage and reports from opposition websites show demonstrators chanting "Death to the dictator" and "So long as Ahmadinejad remains, this will continue" before being dispersed by an onslaught of plain-clothed and uniformed security forces. At the same time, the traditional shouts of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" echoed in large gatherings organized by the government in front of the old embassy. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Shah of Iran...