Word: spills
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...jailed for life in a U.S. prison for plotting to blow up New York landmarks in 1993. Young Ahmed and his brother Mohammed, 29, still on the run, were sent to Afghanistan in 1988 as teen recruits in the Islamic holy war. Some U.S. officials think Ahmed could spill a trove of useful information, since he spent years at bin Laden's side. But so far, Ahmed has refused to cooperate with his captors, and U.S. officials say they have not yet had access to question...
Though Latin is the language on the plate, discussions do not revolve solely around lofty classical themes and poets but spill out like any mealtime conversation. It was sort of fun discussing the election last yearBush as a frutex and that sort of thing, explains grad student Noah Dauber. More recently, Latin ruminations on the war in Afghanistan lapsed into a What would the Greeks/Romans do? hypothetical. But most often, explains Whittington, the students talk about their personal lives. Weve developed into a community of friends, Leah says. And that is the ideal of learning...
...show off a spinning zoetrope, a vintage movie projector, a handcrafted model airplane. Stepping around a staffer who is painting a trompe l'oeil on a wall, he shows off his proudest creation?his fantasy studio. Tomes on anatomy and history crowd the shelves, a pterodactyl hovers overhead, desks spill over with tubes of paint, old postcards, a jar of pencil stubs. Copies of his sketches are tacked, unframed, all over the walls. Nothing is roped off. "I wanted to show the roots of inspiration, that feeling of something bursting in your chest," he says. Standing in this room...
Crisis has a way of pulling people together, of wiping away silly disputes, and the Bush foreign policy team has fallen more quickly into line than many thought possible just six weeks ago. Differences between the State Department and the Pentagon still spill into the newspapers, but the terror attacks have sent everyone on the foreign policy squad back to his or her strongest position and turned the group into a team. The need to build a coalition has vindicated Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose taste for multilateral solutions had made him the odd man out among the Bushies...
...small settings. Schools then should focus resources on hiring the faculty to make these classes a reality for more students. Students need interpersonal contact with their professors. Schools then should encourage more faculty to advise. And discussion sections should be scheduled close to dinner so that conversation can spill over into the less formal setting...