Word: unpacks
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...ideas. I cannot begin to describe the tedium of reading dozens of identical exam essays, all of them cribbed from a professor’s lecture notes; nor can I begin to describe the elation I feel at finding that rarest of student papers that takes the time to unpack a subject and find something new and all its own at its heart...
...lined palaces he erected all over Iraq as monuments to his power. According to close associates, he would stay instead in small houses on the edges of his various compounds, changing location every eight to 10 hours and keeping an assistant on duty around the clock to pack and unpack his suitcases. Saddam, his former secretary says, so admired the fortitude of the Bedouin tribes that wander the Iraqi wilderness that he often headed into the mountains--accompanied, of course, by caravans of aides, cooks and bodyguards--to bed down among them. "He lived very simply," says the secretary...
...have to get so much together to compete,” Redd said, adding that she has not yet had time to unpack her boxes from college...
...hung out with some artists in the East Village, went out to clubs regularly,” he says of his heady city nights. “I didn’t even unpack my books. I had a year of not any reading...
...Instead, these next weeks will be a time of compromise. And packing. Even as they wrangle through lingering legislation, departing members of congress will be filling up boxes, labeling files and preparing their offices for incoming lawmakers. And one, Minnesota Independent Dean Barkley, won't even bother to unpack; he's there filling in for the late Paul Wellstone, and has dashed hopes on both sides of the aisle by declaring his intention "not to side with either party." His resolution will face tough challenges from the White House and leading Democrats, both eager to count him, however briefly, among...