Word: surrounds
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...black II. As is the way of sequels, the script is a rehash of the original: in an international football tournament, the losing team claims to have been done in by incompetent referees. Matters take a particularly ugly turn when a group of irate players, smarting from defeat, surround and rough up the official in front of TV cameras. Aghast, football's governing body promises to deal severely with the athletes to ensure that this kind of behavior doesn't happen again...
...from mid-July to the end of October, Eneabba undergoes a startling transformation into one of Australia's most impressive natural attractions. The spring rains trigger an outburst of wildflowers, which bedeck the usually arid landscape in yellows, pinks and whites. No fewer than nine national heritage reserves surround the town, each one a wonderland of the world's finest collections of flowering plants. Probably the most splendid is the unimaginatively named Reserve 29073, 10 km west of Eneabba, where carpets of everlastings (so called because their petals stay attached even after the flowers die) stretch beyond the horizon...
Coming, coincidentally enough, as we prepare to leave school for the summer, this flurry of official admonishments provides a fitting bookend to a year that began with Sept. 11. College is a famously sheltered place, and the walls of ivy that surround us are designed, in part, to hold the world constant so that we might study it. Cheney’s warning should give notice, however, that the world we are about to rejoin is very different than the one we left when we came to school in the fall...
...should it. Why should you pay $10 to have a meditative, contemplative experience with strangers when you have a DVD player with surround sound at home? Films are held at coliseums like the new giant theaters with stadium seating built for laughing, crying and screaming at grand heroics. Sophocles wrote about killing your kids and having sex with your mom and gods descending at the last second to save the day. He knew how to pull off a decent opening weekend. --Reported by Jess Cagle/Los Angeles and Benjamin Nugent and Heather Won Tesoriero/New York
...things about Saddam, contradictions abound. He is known to surround himself with paranoiac security. Yet when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside...