Word: basic
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...basic framework of a deal was pounded out by last Tuesday night. One last wrinkle came from, of all places, a group of international "peace activists" who had marched into the church the week before, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians inside and taking them food and supplies. They were accompanied by Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole. "They wanted to be dragged out by Israeli soldiers on camera," says a church official who helped negotiate a resolution to the siege. In the end, they were the last to leave the church, taken out forcibly by Israeli authorities...
...know if there's an official literary term for this genre yet, but let's call it Chinese Chick Lit. If you look at books like Adeline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves and Anhua Gao's To the Edge of the Sky, you'll find a basic formula: a feisty, exotically gorgeous woman suffers hell. Hell comes in the form of an oppressive regime (usually the Cultural Revolution) or through abuse inflicted by male power figures (heartless fathers or cruel husbands...
...reporter, “At one point, he closed his eyes completely in what seemed to be some sort of Zen napping trance.” As a graduating senior, I have nothing but sympathy for fatigue, but the bottom line is that Summers fails to provide the basic body language students are used to seeing in those who are paying attention to them...
Orleans says that the presidents, in submitting the agenda for possible reforms, did not question the basic Parry-Ryan framework, but rather asked—as Orleans summarized—“within that structure, what can we do additionally...
...serious photographers in need of a good night's rest, or those who have time to spare, consider camping out or taking a room at one of several basic but adequate guesthouses scattered near the base. Watch your step as you're straining for that perfect picture, though. There are no guardrails, and it's a long way down to Laos...