Word: wiring
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...races came down to the wire...
...happens every year. A major wire service falsely calls a race, or calls a race before it has finished. With hundreds of reporters, dozens of technicians and scores of editors, mistakes happen...
Jeff E. Hammerbacher '04 says the only result he hopes for is that the election be "close and down to the wire...
...Honduran history: While the MS slept on the floor of their cramped dormitory, members of the "18" had sneaked in with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along the prison barbed-wire like party streamers. They also cut the ears off the corpses and tossed them over the wall for the stray dogs. "It was a grotesque barbarity," says prison psychologist Oscar Suazo. "After it was all over, the 18's were laughing and flashing the gang sign...
...pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T. S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/ Appeasing long forgotten wars...