Word: strides
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Your editorial on NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade (Editorial, May 10) flippantly insists "that this whole episode must be taken into stride" while conceding that "such events would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall." I beg to differ--the failure on the part of the CIA to distinguish between the address of a suspected Yugoslavian arms agency and the Chinese embassy down the street would be more palatable if we had more confidence in the CIA's intelligence...
...course, while we insist that this whole episode must be taken in stride, we do acknowledge that such episodes would be more palatable if we had more confidence in NATO's operation overall. There are critical flaws in our strategy--if we can be said to have...
...route to Christy's for late-night nourishment, I pass the Phoenix, the Spee and the Fox. As I stride to class in Harvard Yard, the spare change lady beseeches me from the doorway of the Porcellian...
...bright lights and big titles matter. Your husband, the most powerful man in the world, had sex with an intern? Don't worry about it! Your police department is known for roughing up innocent civilians? Hey, no problem! It's all taken in stride in the rough-and-tumble world of New York politics. Just ask Al D'Amato. Empire State voters should simply understand that their likely candidates for the 2000 Senate seat are far from saintly. But maybe they like it that...
...name of the concert "In Close Corners" was certainly justified--the Adams Pool Theater does have a rather intimate ambiance. The dancers managed to take this all in stride, though, using the aisles and risers with remarkable grace. The music was loud and well suited to the complicated hip-hop and jazz moves that are Mainly Jazz's style. Between the charming chair-dancing routine in Salt and Pepa's "Shoop" and a seductive rendition of Janet Jackson's "Velvet Rope," there came a point in the performance where neither Salt nor Pepa nor Ms. Jackson herself could have better...