Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon is still looking at targets to hit, and the CIA continues covert operations to trip up bin Laden operatives. His aides have recently been arrested in Britain and Germany. Three months ago, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA broke up a bin Laden ring that had been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. Egyptian terrorists identified in the plot were deported to Cairo...
...hunch is that whoever thought to move the tables wanted to encourage more open discussion--the figurative round table, much like a WWF ring is called the squared circle. Somebody wanted to create little self-contained units of eaters. "I think it's more sociable," one of the card-swipers told me. "We'll probably try this for a few weeks." If all went well, I figure, Annenberg could boast a Grays West square, a rugby square, a Stuyvesant square and possibly a table, home to much revelry, of prospective math/physics double concentrators...
MIKE TYSON Pleads no contest to assault; parole officer won't be pleased. He'll fight again, but in a ring...
...kids and adorable to adults. What pint-sized prima donna ballerina didn't want to be Clara, prancing about onstage in the swirliest dress with the best doll and dancing that breathtaking (and romantic?) duet with the Nutcracker Prince? Some of the intensely traditional ballet's parts, however, may ring a bit uncomfortable with audiences today--all the little boys receive guns and promptly pretend to shoot one another, while all the little girls receive dolls and are content to sit and rock them. Yet despite borderline-misogynistic scenes like this, the first few scenes exude a delightful sweetness found...
...enough for an anniversary, the remains lie unexcavated in the rubble of more recent crises. So at Harvard in the fall of 1998, pictures of that familiar smoke-darkened sky are like fresh posters for last month's bull-fight. We thought El Terror had been killed in the ring, and so the familiar image is like seeing a ghost. Things aren't so finished as they seemed...