Word: wane
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...crosswords should embrace everything in life. When I started there were people who did not know much about the modern world so they found my puzzles harder and they wrote to complain. These people either died, or have given up on me. 11.FM: Sudoku seems to be on the wane. What are your predictions for the next big puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku is like that. Walking...
...gorgeous spring day in Baghdad today. The sun was out. Friday is the first day of the weekend, so many families ate barbequed lamb skewers in their backyard gardens. But as the sun started to wane, reality returned and, as is the unfortunate custom here, unsettling news started coming over the airwaves. A suicide bomber blew himself up as a deputy prime minister was walking out of a well-guarded mosque near his home on the edge of the fortified Green Zone in the middle of Baghdad. Salam al-Zubaie was struck in the chest by shrapnel and remains...
...Suharto era. But if Indonesia is to shore up its international reputation, more will be needed than recycling an old ideology tainted by its association with a former dictator. In the absence of more vigorous mobilization by moderates, the rising conservative tide in Indonesian Islam looks unlikely to wane soon. Indonesians who return from study overseas-and those who don't leave home-are just a mouse click away from Salafi scholars anywhere else. "The Internet has helped encourage a uniformity of opinion in the Islamic world," says Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group. "Some...
...counter-insurgency strategy the military plans to implement across Baghdad. Part of the plan hinges on quicker response time and constant interactions with residents. The thinking goes: with no room to fight and fewer chances to intimidate civilians, the power and influence of militiamen and insurgents will wane...
...events "take us back to square one," said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as he addressed a tumultuous session of Parliament the next day. Indeed, the grisly bus massacre shattered New Delhi's claims that terrorism was on the wane and dimmed hopes for future political stability in the troubled northwest Indian state. Sikhs, who make up 2% of the Indian population but form a majority in Punjab, have long wanted greater autonomy from the central government in New Delhi. But even before the Indian army's bloody 1984 invasion of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine...