Word: sheets
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White. Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, standing on the floor of the Senate last month, holding up a blank sheet of white paper. That, he says, is all you can see in winter on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain--just "snow and ice." So what could be wrong with drilling for oil in such a bleak, deserted region in the distant northeastern corner of Alaska? There is nothing there...
Botterill's overtime winner may have been the flashy headline, but Harvard's second line was the story behind the win. Senior forward Tara Dunn--who was moved from defense to replace injured co-captain Angie Francisco centering the second line--did not factor on the score sheet but played a great game nonetheless...
...ready to retire. A yakuza gathering is like afternoon at a retirement club, each man alone in regret and anxiety. Sonatine, which secured Kitano's reputation in the West, plays like a gangster King Lear as rewritten by Samuel Beckett. The soliloquies are bloody battles, illuminated by the sheet-lightning pyrotechnics of automatic gunfire; but the rest is Kitano walking, sitting, staring. Till he blows his brains...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...
...only be able to hold them between 10 p.m. and midnight on Fridays and between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Sundays. There will be two mandatory meetings for each of you in office hours to discuss your interpretive dance, so I will be passing around a sign-up sheet later in the section...