Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stood in the standing room only section of a game between Borussia Dortmund and Kaiserslautern," Brill says, "and to hear the crowds sing and chant, to get thrown all over the place when a goal was scored...it was so exciting...
Julie and Pascal Munyanziza and their two children, who had fled to the south, made the journey back to their tidy three-room house in a mixed Tutsi and Hutu section of Kigali. They found all the windows broken and much of the furniture gone, but the windows have been patched and the house now bears a handwritten sign: IYINZU BANYIRAYO BARAHARI (The owner is here). "If you don't mark your house," says Munyanziza, "someone will take...
...Youman tune "Tea for Two." As the story goes, Shostakvich orchestrated the theme in 40 minutes after a challenge by a friend. Chintz turns into schmaltz at this point; the listener is treated to a seemingly endless (actually only three-minute-33-second) passing of the mindless theme from section to section. The best advice here is to listen for the melding of one texture into the next. Shostakovich manages to keep within the same balance of bass and treble parts, though he sometimes bursts into a gaudy burlesque...
White is a born-again magazine journalist. He first joined TIME as a staff writer in 1972, became senior editor of the Nation section in 1990, and then decided in 1992 to try his hand at television. He joined ABC News as a senior producer, but was away from TIME just eight months "before I started missing my notebook," he says. He returned in March 1993 to cover the lives of ordinary people...
Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m., having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments, including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time...