Word: snappingly
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...Pretoria. The agreement, which specifies how the FDD will be incorporated into the transitional government, the army and the police, is the latest attempt to end a decade of bloody ethnic conflict. Test of Strength JAPAN Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the Lower House of Parliament and called a snap national election for Nov. 9, in what he called a test of popular support for his economic reforms. If Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party can extend its slim parliamentary majority (it currently holds 244 of 480 seats) he will be able to claim a mandate to implement more radical changes...
...sack a quarterback. But as the Harvard football team’s defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator looks to replace the five members of his D-line who will graduate this spring, it’s not one recruit’s lack of explosion after the snap that’s giving him headaches. “This kid has a 3.8 GPA and a 1,270 on his SAT’s,” he says of a candidate in the “Crimson” category of his computer database, a top prospect...
...marries and robs lonely rich women, Karen is asked by one of his exes--who is still sweet on him--whether she'd kill him if it came to that. "I don't really care how good a listener he is," Karen says. Other actresses would snap out the line glibly; Gugino gives it the voice of both a dedicated marshal and a woman weary of slick-talking men. Karen Sisco is like that: a witty, mature drama that can hit both the chest and the heart. --By James Poniewozik
...third path is suggested by Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: a snap election to create an interim parliament. "The candidates would run on national lists and be elected by proportional representation. The likely result would be a coalition government, which would then have three years to write a constitution and create a permanent government.? The risks of such a scheme are obvious: radicals tend to do best in premature elections, and a large, continuing American military presence and real humanitarian and financial support from the U.N. would still be required. The advantage would be an elected...
...Goldenberg notes, the corridor of warm water that lies between the Cape Verde Islands and Central America has been producing, on average, nearly four big storms a year, as compared with fewer than two in the preceding three decades. And that has caused him and others to snap to attention. Unlike the Pacific and Indian oceans, notes Colorado State University meteorologist William Gray, "the Atlantic is a marginal area for tropical storms. When global conditions are not right, it sees very few, and when they are, it sees quite...