Word: springs
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...next morning, the digger reappears and, this time, the gate opens. Every day since has brought reports of new bones. But as we drive out of Silopi, we pass convoys of tarpaulin-covered military trucks rumbling towards the Iraqi border, as they have every March in recent memory. Spring means a return to good weather, and fighting the PKK in the mountains. The trucks are a reminder that the road ahead for Turkey is long and bumpy. But change seems inevitable...
...decades after ignoring the results of its last polls, Burma's long-ruling junta has promised another electoral exercise next year, most likely by spring. Few doubt that the generals' henchmen will ensure that the opposition doesn't prevail as it did back in 1990, when the National League for Democracy (NLD) crushed the military's proxy party. (In a troubling precedent, a recent constitutional referendum received a credulity-straining 92% approval.) But the queries put to me during my recent visit got to the heart of a fundamental political dilemma: Is any election, even one so likely...
...place wherever i go after this life--that ill finally not be at war w. myself, the world, the universe." Klebold was the follower, not the planner. Under Harris' careful direction, he learned to turn his inner pain inside out, into an insane desire to punish others. By the spring of 1999, he and Harris were both calling themselves gods. The rest of us were zombies, losers, robots, trapped in our inferior little lives by our inferior little minds. They were ready to kill. (Read "The Columbine Tapes...
Last night, Leverett HoCo announced that the Spring Formal will be held in Leverett. Big woop. Formal veterans have perfected dancing under big white tents and turned open bars in courtyards into an art form...
...eager rabbits started contemplating ideas for Spring Formal, the idea of holding it at Top of the Hub, at the zenith of the Prudential Tower--“the premiere location in Boston" according to one Leverett resident--quickly gained attention and popularity...