Word: ran
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...with the Lincoln Center Film Society, the Juilliard School of Music and the School of American Ballet, spent the past 40 years locked inside a squat stretch of travertine that would have been perfect for an FBI fingerprint lab. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into permanent shadow...
...Cambodia The Khmer Rouge, on Trial at Last More than 30 years after Pol Pot's brutal regime killed an estimated 1.7 million people, the first of its reviled leaders faced genocide charges before a U.N.-backed tribunal Feb. 17. Kaing Guek Eav, 66, known as Duch, ran Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng prison camp, where thousands perished. Four other aged defendants will face charges after Duch; absent is Khmer Rouge mastermind Pol Pot, who died in his jungle redoubt...
...based Center for Internet Addiction Recovery classifies the condition as compulsive behavior in which "the Internet becomes the organizing principle of addicts' lives." According to guidelines set by Tao Ran, director of the Beijing center and a colonel in the People's Liberation Army, using the Web for six consecutive hours a day for three straight months constitutes an addiction...
...response, Catholic News Service - the official news agency affiliated with the USCCB - ran an article that began, "Internet rumors to the contrary, no Catholic hospital in the United States is in danger of closing because of the Freedom of Choice Act." Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, told the news agency that the legislation "has never contained anything that would force Catholic hospitals or Catholic personnel to do abortions or to participate in them." She added, "I don't believe that FOCA will pass...
...pivot had a simple purpose, as Gibbs never hesitated to remind reporters: to show Americans that Obama is a different kind of leader, one who will make Washington a more transparent and functional place. "There were 17 people who ran for President, and only one survived," Gibbs said in his staff pep talk. "People didn't vote for us just so that we would do the things that any of the other 16 candidates would do." (See pictures of Obama's nation of hope...