Word: reminders
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...revealing moment. Clearly Bush meant to remind the world of his determination to finish off Saddam's regime, but his impatient tone simultaneously underscored that the task was proving more difficult than many had anticipated. The allied wave of steel pushing into Iraq had been slowed by sandstorms and guerrilla attacks. Civilian casualties were adding up. Having apparently survived the U.S.'s first-day attempt to kill him, Saddam seemed to be in command...
Harley, then 27, was the new marketing director for Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co., which lovingly sewed and sold authentic replicas of old sports jerseys known as throwbacks. When Combs was shown some samples, he wanted to buy them. He also warmed to Harley, telling him "You remind me of Biggie," a.k.a. rap-music star Christopher Wallace, a Combs friend who was gunned down in 1997. Harley and his employer were instantly anointed...
...beats are digital icing—finely groomed and processed gems that remind listeners that, despite its faults, radio hip-hop has consistently pushed sonic boundaries. “Platinum BlaQue Party” employs shaker, hi-hat and triangle samples straight from a Missy Elliott chart-topper, along with a creamy-wet, futuristic synth. The lyrics imitate radio-hop’s vapid babble but exaggerate it even further, laying bare its superficiality. “I got so much access to excess,” they croon, “words cannot describe my success...
...Bulletin also included the following notice: “As spring and warmer weather approach, the tourist breeding season is nearly upon us. We remind you: please do not feed the tourists! They are dangerous and may bite, or take pictures of you next to the John Harvard statue...
...breakdown of the U.S.-mediated Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the U.S. blamed on the Palestinians. Another reason was what Arabs saw as American backing for Israel's strong military response to the Palestinian intifada. In any discussion about Bush's policies, no Arab will fail to remind you that the President once called hard-line Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon a "man of peace...