Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book agent Lucianne Goldberg, Tripp reached for the On button. No one likes a snitch, especially one with so much to gain. So on Friday, Tripp explained, "I struggled long and hard... I was facing substantial risk of losing everything I have aspired to..." She went on to rail against "McCarthyistic" tactics, as if she were the one who had been taped and handed over to the FBI. Still, she couldn't resist adding juicy details--that some of the alleged calls were "volatile and contentious"--just in case anyone doubted she had more dirt to unload. She certainly...
...strike. But neither Australia nor the Netherlands would provide it; as for Canada, White House aides said, Jean Chrétien might soon indicate "an interest in supporting or participating." All in all, it's hardly a Gulf War-style coalition being built here. Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin continues to rail against the United States' "unrealistic and dangerous" attempt to establish "world hegemony." And congressional leaders continue their own rhetorical journey into jingoism. If Clinton can negotiate his way out of this one, he'll surely deserve that Nobel Peace Prize...
...patterns of black and white, different everyday, which landed on my Long Island driveway. A real challenge it was to fill in the blanks, especially when I knew little Shakespeare and nothing of Ancient Greece. Like many fellow suburban teenagers, I began to take the train (Long Island Rail Road, LIRR) to the city (New York) on a routine basis for both leisure and work...
After all three teams in a second place tie inthe Ivies lost on Friday night, Harvard travelledto New Haven on Saturday looking for a rail ticketback to the upper echelons of the Ivy League...
Waltham is not, perhaps, the most diverting destination serviced by the MBTA. Many of the most prominent signs in town announce the distance to Lexington, and at midday the busiest stretch of the sleepy streets is the outbound to Boston commuter rail station. But just steps from the train stop, in a nondescript office building overlooking the deserted Waltham common, pulses the heartbeat of one of Boston's most exciting cultural events...