Word: vip
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...poverty and despair of daily life in the West Bank and Gaza certainly makes young Palestinian men more receptive to the monstrous promises made by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that suicide bombers earn a their way into a kind of heavenly VIP lounge, complete with the bizarre guarantees of salvation for 70 of their relatives and the right to have their way with 70 virgins in paradise. And yet the fundamentalist movements of Afghanistan and Egypt are a reminder that the most extreme distortions of Islam tend to gestate in situations of the most extreme social and economic conditions...
...then there were the times I went away. At different points in my college career, I have found myself, variously: burrowing through the musty Gov Docs stacks to collect statistical data; flying into New York to interview a movie director; spinning at the Park Plaza Hotel; lounging in the VIP room of London’s Ministry of Sound; in love...
Just five months and 11 days after he threw in the towel, Al Gore held a thank-you party for campaign staff members last Thursday night at Washington's Cap City Brewery. There was a cash bar--attendees did receive a laminated Cap City VIP Club card for 25% off--but the mood was hardly resentful, thanks to Jim Jeffords. "Finally a one-vote margin counts in our favor," joked Joseph Lieberman before slipping out to do Larry King Live. Gore, thicker but still wearing faded jeans and trademark earth-tone shirt, introduced himself with some losing-candidate one-liners...
...take it upon ourselves to dump on each other? Life is already full of so many slammed doors, unexpected stumbles, crises of faith. We all made it to the top of the mountain together. There’s no need to push people off, or to set up a VIP area. Then again, the temptation to exclude and reject is remarkably powerful. I remember getting a whiff of righteousness and superiority earlier this year when I had to choose the next arts executives for this newspaper. Suddenly, it became so easy to accept my role as an arbitrator of worthiness?...
...sure it isn't true because he was the Commencement speaker in 1994," said University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, who is charged with coordinating all VIP visits and helping to organize commencement. "It was a great occasion...