Word: smacked
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...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...
...countries, and I ask her what she really wants. She says she doesn't want to live in a world separate from humans. To prove it, with all the free will she can muster, LiLi wants to kiss me. She offers her pink pixilated lips, I lean forward and - smack! - my first virtual kiss. But I don't feel a thing. And apparently neither does she: "I don't think that real humans can fulfill the needs of a virtual veejay." She's probably right; for one thing, like all of her fellow chatterbots, LiLi is up 24 hours...
...even a matter of days pass and there's no real convincing move from Arafat to arrest the Hamas people, then there could be some attacks from Israel. But there are other things Sharon has to weigh - yes, the settlers want him to smack the Palestinians, but there's also a recognition of two things. Israel has gotten a lot of international credit, as it were, for laying off for a couple of weeks following the F-16 air raids that caused an outcry internationally and even within Israel. He may be reluctant to give up that diplomatic advantage...
...Berlusconi's supporters, mindful of the fact that the Italian economy has lately performed less well than most in Europe, dismiss the criticisms of their neighbors. He is, they argue, a man who gets things done, who will bring the smack of firm government to a nation that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three...
...Justice Secretary Hernando Perez says the prosecution is ready to make its case, and he's confident enough to push for a trial in mid-May, smack in the middle of nationwide Senate elections in which Estrada's wife is running. "If they want us to present evidence today," he says, "we can do so." That might not be a bad idea. The pro-Erap crowd, which includes Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a hero of the original People Power movement who was also accused of coup-plotting against former President Corazon Aquino, is calling for People Power III to bring...