Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer may be not just long and hot, but dangerously wet as well, if angry soakees shoot back with live ammunition. The mayor of Boston, reacting to a soaking and shooting that left a 15-year-old boy dead last month, asked city stores...
...killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...
...unimaginable has since come to pass, and now the Crimea is at the center of a bitter territorial row between Russia and Ukraine that threatens to destroy the fragile Commonwealth of Independent States and make enemies out of two nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine...
...second year in a row, Harvard ranks No. 1 in U.S. News and World Report's annual list of America's best colleges. Harvard is also rated No. 1 in "academic reputation," up from last year's No. 2 slot...
...balloting for the Cambridge City Council. Wolf recieved 2000 more "number one" votes than her nearest rival, Walter J. Sullivan. With the victory of Wolf and four other incumbents, the Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed councillors are able to hold onto their slim majority for the second year in row...