Word: wiring
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...pregame ceremony—when the Harvard seniors were honored along with their families at center court—the Crimson seemed supremely confident and focused on its goal. Off of the opening tap, senior guard Kevin Rogus nailed a three pointer. Harvard never looked back, holding the lead wire-to-wire...
...tried to outdo Perot at his own game, setting out again last week to champion some of the Texas billionaire's pet causes. Buchanan's top aides were relaxing in a hotel bar after a long day of campaigning in New Hampshire when someone began reading aloud the first wire story on Perot's new party, and the group started plotting how to respond. Buchanan, however, joined Perot's attack on lavish congressional pensions, an issue stirring fresh voter outrage since the disclosure that disgraced Senator Bob Packwood will receive $89,000 a year for life. Referring to his rival...
Erik Saar and Viveca Novak's book about Guantánamo, Inside the Wire, will be published by Penguin Press...
...sing and dance to the warm strumming of an Oud player, Al Ammari watched the bad news on Saudi TV: he lost to an Islamic conservative opponent, part of a sweep of Riyadh's seven seats by the fundamentalists. As Al Ammari saw it going down to the wire, last week's vote was a test of support for Saudi liberals who have long been overwhelmed by conservatives loosely allied with the ruling Al Saud dynasty. A conundrum in President Bush's State of the Union call for democracy in Saudi Arabia, al Ammari says, is the risk that elections...
...Gonzales never informed Bush that Washington's incompetent attorney never called a mental health expert to testify, never advised the jury that his client was retarded or that he had an IQ between 58 and 69 and had been beaten with whips, water hoses, extensions cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with...