Word: prowls
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...prowl for all those skeletons in the closet, historical fiction author William Martin ’72 is writing his seventh novel, Harvard Yard, on the history of Harvard. The novel, due to be published in the fall of 2003, is the sequel to Martin’s New York Times Best Seller, Back Bay, which fictionalized the Puritan city’s founding. Reintroducing several of the characters from Back Bay, Harvard Yard will recount the entire history of Harvard, following the book’s main character, Peter Fallon, on a hunt to find a rare and valuable...
Lodged, presumably, somewhere in the canyons and dugouts of an Afghan mountain range, Osama bin Laden waits for the reckoning. If he has heard by now that U.S. special forces are on the prowl, the news was delivered by a courier; Pentagon officials say they have cut off al-Qaeda's ability to communicate by phone. Last week U.S. pilots hit at least one bin Laden deputy: a bombing raid near Jalalabad killed Abu Baseer al-Masri, an Egyptian Islamic militant said to be close to bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri...
When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive...
...prefectural building, where Tanaka has his office, two young women desperately try to get a glimpse of the Governor, who is holed up in budget meetings. With a video camera, autograph boards and calligraphy pens, they prowl the halls for four-and-a-half hours, finally catching up to Tanaka eating lunch in the employee cafeteria. What excites them about Tanaka? "It's his intelligence, his perseverance, his warmth," says Ayako Yamada, a housewife who lives a two-hour train ride away. "He is so passionate...
...weather. A good beginning might be a stroll through the old central city, home of the Tower of London. Move on to historic Chelsea and Greenwich, explore literary Bloomsbury, then follow the footsteps of Jack the Ripper with a leading crime historian. Sample the pubs along the Thames; prowl the Mayfair world of Princess Diana--maybe even run into a royal; rub elbows with gowned barristers at the Inns of Court and then finish the day with a black-caped guide leading you down shadowy West End streets in search of ghosts of centuries past. "It was like taking...