Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all the parity in the league, an exciting regular season will come down to the wire with all teams besides woeful Union having a shot at a playoff spot. Most will have some chance at being one of the five teams to host the first round of the playoffs...
...colonel in the Syrian military, the svelte heir apparent favors powder blue suits over camouflage fatigues. Bashar has taken charge of policy in Lebanon and spearheaded an anticorruption drive, but he is best known on the street as chairman of the Syrian Informatique Society, which is striving to wire isolated Syria to the Internet. He dispenses with the nationalistic swagger of his father's generation, and has been heard reflecting somberly on Syria's fears, his hopes for change, the impatience of youth and prospects for negotiating with Israel. For a son of Syria's strongman, feared and respected...
...some in Syria, peace will come none too soon. One day recently, a teacher named Naim Khalil, 38, piled his wife and kids into the car and drove out to a dusty hillside west of Damascus. He looked past some barbed-wire fences and a minefield at some cousins standing on another ridge in the family village of Majdal Shams, under Israeli army control for 32 years. Holding up a battery-powered megaphone, he yelled out greetings and asked for the latest news. "I've been doing this since I was a boy," Khalil explains. "This is how I told...
...candidates while dressed in shorts, his shoeless feet propped up on the desk. Soon a former circus juggler will be leading visitors through a sculpting class in the Annex, where they will come across the newly hired CFO on her lunch hour. She is slapping clay on a wire figure while studying a live, totally nude model...
...course, this too is fiction: a tribute to and ripoff of Nabokov. Pera gives Lo a younger brother, who died in a freak accident (tornado, live wire), and a lingering devotion to her dead dad, for whom Humbert is a sexier surrogate. Lo records scenes of innocent sapphic frolics, moviegoing (It's a Wonderful Life is about "how everything turns out right because the father didn't die after all") and quarrels with her bossy, desperate...