Word: standings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...April 8, an Iranian judge announced that Saberi would stand trial on charges of spying...
...knees of her pants were frayed and bits of gravel clung to the fabric, but she didn’t brush them clean or in any other way distract her focus from the figure kneeling on the opposite bank. The dark shape across the water grew elongated, also standing. They faced one another with the Feather River in between. In two or three more hours? they would kneel again and drink.”Among prose stylists, Denis Johnson has few living equals. His finest moments bristle with beauty and potential; words blossom inward toward the enigmatic center...
...teach, research and foster learning—but we cannot shy away from the responsibility to be an upstanding institution. If Harvard lays off its workers, it will only contribute to the economic crisis of our time. Now, more than ever, is an opportunity for Harvard to stand as an example of moral integrity...
...temperature shot up to 102 degrees and his throat closed so tightly he could hardly breathe. "I didn't want to upset my wife and daughters, so I tried to pretend it wasn't so bad," he says. "But then the pain became so much I couldn't even stand up or sit on the sofa. I just lay on the floor and tried to breathe." (Check out a story on whether the alarm over swine flu was justified...
...always looking for the bad guy, especially someone who could do something to an old lady like that." He adds, "I plan on attending the trials when they come up for the personal satisfaction of actually physically seeing him in custody and knowing that he's going to stand for the charges. I've always been a proponent of the death penalty, but if he gets life in prison, I would be just as happy knowing that he won't get out again...