Word: slow
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...peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make their peace with the authorities. But with Maskhadov gone, Basayev could become even more influential. And the war is increasingly being waged not by fighters in forests, but by jamaat - small mobile groups loyal...
...Riding a five-game winning streak entering the Dodge Holiday Classic, Harvard’s lineup was crippled by the flu and subsequently managed only a 0-0 tie against Northern Michigan before a stunning upset loss at the hands of Merrimack. Regardless, the Crimson can ill-afford a slow start against the Saints, who scored 11 goals last weekend and will look to slide right into their up-tempo offense from the opening faceoff...
...pronouncements of progress in Iraq, the sequences of the soldiers’ assignments reveal that their duties and equipment remain unchanged. Days are spent patrolling the streets of Baghdad in scrap-metal-sided Humvees (armor deftly satirized by one soldier as guaranteed to “slow the shrapnel down so that it stays in your body instead of going clean through it?...
This is still good, although way too old to be number seven on anything. Not that seven is too old. But you see what I mean about the Billboard charts moving slow as molasses...
...Ghetto; Helmut Kohl reached for the hand of French President Fran?ois Mitterrand in the bloodstained fields of Verdun. Such symbolism is the stuff from which true forgiveness is born and historical credibility restored. The death of Zhao presented one more opportunity for China's leadership to begin the long, slow process of doing something similar. Alas, this challenge has not yet been met. And one suspects that until Chinese leaders start to acknowledge the accumulated wrongdoing for which they and their predecessors have been responsible, the question of their nation's true greatness?which can never be a purely economic...