Word: monica
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Eighteen bombings rocked Bogota last week as the cocaine warlords stepped up their counterattack against the government's crackdown on drug traffickers. But the frightened citizens of Colombia were also rattled by word that Justice Minister Monica de Greiff had resigned her post, just two months after taking the job. De Greiff, 32, quit after receiving numerous death threats to herself, her Argentine husband and their three-year...
...CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
With nothing left to prove, Evert has made her final year a kind of royal circuit. Yet she remains competitive enough that she nearly derailed the yearlong stately procession. After losing in April to 15-year-old Monica Seles, Evert feared her skills and toughness were eroding so rapidly that she should quit at once. Bypassing her beloved French Open, she watched at home as Seles proved herself no fluke but a budding superstar by reaching the semifinals; then losing to her seemed less shameful and ominous. Evert went on to Wimbledon, a tournament that had been her nemesis...
Suddenly the word "phantom" became a verb. As the year went on and the academic load grew, Mike phantomed more and more frequently. After the night Mike and Ben, the nut from Santa Monica across the hall, decided they were going to run around the Yard dressed only in shaving cream and shorts, we initiated a Phantom Watch. People would call on Friday nights: "Is he doing it? Can we come over...
This year's awardees are: Kyu-Chul Choi, from Seoul, South Korea; Monica Flores Correa, from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Yossi Melman, from Tel Aviv, Israel; and Goenawan Mohamad from Jakarta, Indonesia...