Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer of poetry and fiction, and the general has his courtly side as well. Shelton, 55, grew up on a farm near the North Carolina hamlet of Speed (pop. 100), where he met his wife Carolyn in the fifth grade; their home life is said to be "rock solid...
Inning eight, Boise: The kids come out to rerun the truck race. The crowd cheers. This time, the mascot, Humphrey the Hawk, starts the race by bringing down his wing. The little girl wins and is loudly applauded. The Hawks widen their lead to a solid 11 runs...
...movie Contact is something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance...
...next targets. Cunanan, suspected of murdering Gianni Versace and four other men, may be working his way down a hit list of people, motivated by revenge, the FBI said today. To prevent further bloodshed, the agency was interviewing Cunanan's friends to determine who should be warned. But solid new leads are sparse. A Brazilian tourist's reported photo of Versace and Cunanan together at a party just days before the fashion designer's slaying actually shows neither of the two men. Although it is not clear whether Cunanan knew Versace, an acquaintance of Cunanan's reportedly told...
...racial preferences to prop up a system of artificial diversity instead of doing the heavy lifting that leads to real equality." His desire to see affirmative action dismantled, however, is premature. Using Connerly's metaphor, wouldn't it be wiser to do the heavy lifting first, thus building a solid foundation before hastily tearing down the prop? That way, no one will end up under a pile of rubble. KURT TEZEL Merritt Island...