Word: vii
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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COVER: Photograph for TIME by James Nachtwey--VII. From left, Sergeant Marquette Whiteside, Specialist Billie Grimes and Sergeant Ronald Buxton, in Baghdad...
...VII. VOCABULARY
...book to note that Hermione’s student activism is a total failure so far, Harvard agitators know all too well that winning better treatment for workers in the face of a coldhearted administration can take years—it will be perhaps Book VI or VII before the House elves see those wages and health care benefits. But Harvard readers can take heart that their Hogwarts compatriots are fighting the good fight along with them...
...best-of lists. They're also helpful aids to directorial research. John Singleton says he played hours of Turismo while preparing 2 Fast 2 Furious. He put the Nissan Skyline (which isn't sold in the U.S. and had to be imported from Japan) and the Mitsubishi Evo VII in the movie because they're in Turismo. "We wanted to get the cars that kids play with in the video games," he says...
...airport or a one-way trip to some bug-infested jail. At Artisans D'Angkor, tel: (855-63) 964097, off Siem Reap's Sivatha Boulevard, talented youngsters turn out gorgeous wood and stone replicas of famous Khmer art. A mere $500 will get you a 50-centimeter-tall Jayavarman VII head. But be warned: it's authentic sandstone. Be sure to budget for the freight charges home...