Word: playground
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...such lovely was Tavish Scott, Member of the Scottish Parliament, who looked ravishing in a luminous green tutu. The climax of the day is a terrifying amalgam of Lord of the Flies and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The galley is placed in the center of a children's playground; the men move into a carefully choreographed spiral; then, on cue, they toss in their torches and with a roar, the ship goes up in a blaze of glory. tel: (44-8701) 999 440; www.visitshetland.com
Rogers, an Air Force major and experienced fighter pilot, is part of an élite group of U.S. troops playing a crucial role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the U.S.'s most notorious playground. From Nellis Air Force Base, outside Las Vegas, Rogers controls a Predator, a flimsy drone that has been transformed from a spy plane into one of the wars' most lethal weapons. Predators played a key part in catching Saddam Hussein and have killed al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan and Yemen. In September a Predator tracked 11 insurgents who had attacked a U.S. base...
During the course of his nine-month term, al-Jaafari, by his own admission, has acted less like a strong-arming leader and more a playground monitor. Still, he is proud of negotiating to get more representatives of the large Sunni minority, which dominated Iraqi politics under Saddam, into the Cabinet. Al-Jaafari also pushed to bring in Sunnis to help write the constitution. While al-Jaafari stops short of welcoming Baathists back into the government, his actions, say Western diplomats, have brought Sunni politicians into the fold and may reap benefits including broader participation in the Dec. 15 elections...
...intensity of debate between the two--online, in Mommy & Me groups, at the playground--is so charged that one wonders if anyone is really getting any sleep at all. Message-board moderators on sites like iVillage have had to restrain posters from attacking one another. My very own Baby Nazi (actually a British baby nurse named Gina Ford, author of The Contented Little Baby) is so reviled by some that one Amazon.com reviewer wrote, "Should be called Have a Convenient Baby"; another, "This book will ruin your life...
...construction worker turned short-order cook and janitor, would sit on his front porch on the corner of South Jefferson Davis Parkway and Baudin Street in the midcity section of New Orleans. There he could watch people leave early for work and children play across the street at Comiskey Playground. He greeted everyone who passed by. "Where ya at?" or "What's going on?" he would...