Word: basic
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...Qaqaa in January 2003. The proper question isn't, When did the arms disappear? The question is, Why weren't they marked for destruction before our troops started moving up the road toward them? I always thought disrupting the enemy's supply chain - especially its weaponry - was a basic strategy of offense. Tim Coney Medford, Oregon, U.S. Building a Language Barrier "French Plays Defense" [Nov. 8], on the fight against the spread of English in France, quoted President Jacques Chirac's statement "Nothing would be worse for humanity than to move toward a situation where we speak only one language...
...movie is boring," Nichols says, "just as a scene of someone eating dinner is not that interesting" His own favorite sex scenes tend to the suggestive. "Rita Hayworth shaking off that long glove in 'Gilda' is still as sexy as it gets in movies. The (famous) scene in 'Basic Instinct,' of Sharon Stone crossing and uncrossing her legs, is very sexy and very funny, primarily because it's about control and power. To me the sexiest thing I've ever seen is in 'Repulsion,' when Catherine Deneuve is lying on the bed and her sister is coming in the next...
If global warming is real, experts have been saying for decades, then basic climate science dictates that it should show up earliest and proceed most rapidly in the Arctic. But even the experts were stunned at the results of a study released last week. After four years of intensive research by more than 250 scientists, a prestigious multinational body called the Arctic Council reported that the region has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe over the past 50 years. Arctic Ocean ice has shrunk by as much as 20%, snow cover has diminished on land...
...moderate former Prime Minister and longtime No. 2 in the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), stepped into the top slot as chairman. He shares authority with another Old Guard moderate, current Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, 67, who will continue to run day-to-day government operations. And as Palestinian basic law dictates, Parliament speaker Rauhi Fattuh, 55, a largely powerless functionary, was named caretaker President until elections can be held...
...Mark Darcy. She's wriggling around under a gray comforter, looking from behind like a small elephant. He asks what in the world she is doing. Getting dressed, she says, but hiding the "wobbly bits." He firmly states his adoration of them, and her delighted grin seals a basic bargain with the audience. We all have our wobbly bits. And we all desperately hope our lovers and friends will accept them...