Word: wiring
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...finals of the ECAC fall tournament, the Crimson (10-10, 1-1) went into the match as an underdog. The Lions (12-5, 2-0) were in the midst of a six-game winning streak, and the match, just like in the fall, came down to the wire...
...Saturday, police looked on as Mugabe supporters beat opposition protesters with pickaxe handles and barbed-wire whips, prompting opposition leaders to warn that the country was on the verge of civil war. That fear is underscored by Mugabe's apparent willingness to ignore the courts and intimidate his opponents by extra-legal means. But it is Zimbabwe's electorate that bears the cost of its president's policies, and Mugabe may be facing that most uncomfortable of symptoms for a strongman: Voters appear to have stopped following the president's orders...
...footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
...wrestled in Japan, where they use barbed wire, thumbtacks and explosives. What is wrong with those people...
...natural name for the campaign website. It seems the anti-Buchananites got there first, though, since I was greeted with an ominous red-and-blue "Whose populism is it anyway?" and a cute cartoon of Buchanan holding a baseball bat with a nail in it standing behind a barbed-wire-protected border. The rest of the site listed controversial Buchanan statements on civil rights, Jews, women, etc. Clearly not something the campaign would have put together...