Word: afterthoughts
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...west wing of the White House may be the most formidable power stage in the world. But when it was built 100 years ago, it was an architectural afterthought, completed under President Theodore Roosevelt for his temporary executive offices. William Taft added the Oval Office in 1909 (wags suggested it was fashioned in the image of the 300-lb. President). Temporary became permanent, and this strange, constantly evolving warren of work spaces became the incubator of our lofty national aspirations. Most of the great presidential ideas were conceived, debated and executed here. During John F. Kennedy's term, journalists...
...unaware that the names were special. One day last spring he invited Lemaire--in Jerusalem on a scholar's break from his job as head of the Hebrew and Aramaic philology and epigraphy department at the Sorbonne in Paris--to examine some inscriptions in his collection. As an afterthought, the owner mentioned the names on the James box and showed Lemaire a photo...
...fingertips from the get-go. Sharing the limelight with fellow wordsmiths Blueprint and MURS (of Living Legends fame), he tore through a carefully orchestrated set of Atmosphere classics old and new, with the crowd belting out the choruses right along with him. The obligatory freestyle cypher was almost an afterthought, serving to remind how Slug paid his dues before returning to more songful material...
...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...tacked above a large screen television—oddly enough in a cheap wood hutch—that was showing documentary footage from Sept. 11. There was no particular lighting, soundproofing or any other vestiges of a professional show. Even the guest book appeared to have been some cheap afterthought...