Word: replaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said it had acted in retaliation for Kasi's conviction. In Fairfax, jurors...
Indeed, the whole school seems a wonderful mosaic of activities and classes and inquiries. In the library, the Tech Scouts, a group of computer-savvy students, show off their Website and online magazine. Up in the Girls Inc. room, students replay a "feminized" skit, based on Snow White and Cinderella, that they performed at a conference. In Brent Duckor's "Democracy, State and Society" class, Senior Institute students openly and persuasively challenge his assertion that they are being cynical. ("You win," he says. "You're not at all cynical...
What does Broadway offer today? As many revivals as new shows, if you exclude from "new" the epics (a la Cats) that have been running so long they need reviving. The fact that last season's big noise was a replay of the 1975 Chicago might have left Broadway in a funk. Instead, it has sent producers to the musical trunk, foraging for A Funny Thing...
Instead, the 204 men and 57 women of Bravo Company spent the afternoon walking the course, looking more like the slo-mo replay of an N.F.L. game than the cutting edge of the 21st century U.S. Army. "There isn't any training value in walking the course," McQueen groused. Even his recruits were unimpressed. "I expected basic training to be tough, like the movies," says Private Jerry Brunelle. "This is more like summer camp...
...society's continuing struggle with the technological revolution of this century. We tend to trust machines more than people, allowing the former's efficiency to dwarf and overshadow the latters creativity. Sometimes we regret our decisions, like when the National Football League dropped its failed experiment with instant replay. Other times, we seem overtaken by those choices, as in a world where live operators seem to have been totally and permanently replaced by monstrous touch-tone information menus...