Word: rid
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Serbs often offer safe passage out of areas they are attacking, but Bosnian and U.N. officials regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...
Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
...market as international. And I think, especially for African-American males, they're going to have to market their books well, because there is an attempt by some of the fanatical fascists in the literary feminist movement to annhiliate the Black male literary culture. They want to get rid of all the contemporaries and guys in the past. They go back digging up poor Richard Wright. They've got some Black male critics who are following this because there's money in going along with this. Myself, in order to survive, I publish my own magazine, books, novels...
...coup plotters, a new Prime Minister agreed upon by Cedras and Aristide, and an end to the trade embargo that has crippled an already weak economy. At this point the sanctions are punishing the poor while sustaining the rich monopolists who conspired with the army to get rid of the populist Aristide...
...Harvard must rid itself of the ghost of BU, which has beaten the Crimson three times in a row. To win, Harvard must somehow manage to use its unparalleled speed and skill in the ever-tricky Causeway institution. And to win, Harvard must first get past Northeastern...