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...word “KEEN,” one moves in many directions and each letter cube is used no more than once. After three minutes are up, players compare their list of words found—if more than one player has found the same word, all must strike it from their list. Words found by only one player are assigned scores: 1 point for a four-letter word, 2 points for a five-letter word...
...suggestion that we need to strike back is understandable to an attack that some people took very personally,” said BGLTSA Publicity Chair Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04. “But I don’t think that it would be productive to react in kind to extremist sentiments...
...toning down its comments may have less to do with the contents of the document than with Washington's overall objective in going through the United Nations in the first place - winning international support for a war to oust Saddam Hussein. The U.S. insists it retains the right to strike unilaterally, and is proceeding at full steam to assemble the necessary military force in the region to mount an invasion. But it wants international backing both to ensure the widest range of basing options and, even more importantly, to secure regional support for the politically risky business of occupying...
...feet. But it can also cause fatigue, fever and loss of appetite, and in some cases it can affect the heart, lungs and membranes that surround these organs. The disease, which afflicts 2.5 million in the U.S., usually hits people between ages 30 and 50, but it can strike at any age, including childhood. It is three times as common in women as in men and can shorten life by a decade...
...daughter turned republican rebel. The gang did want some money - over $200,000, according to the ransom note - but its real objective was to trade the paintings for the release of Dolours and Marion Price, sisters who were jailed for life on explosives charges and were on hunger strike in London's Brixton jail. The Dugdale gang took 19 paintings, including a Goya, a Vermeer and a Gainsborough. But their caper quickly came unstuck. Five paintings were found two weeks later in a wardrobe in a house in County Cork which Dugdale had rented. The rest were found rolled...