Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Yale Co-op moved to a less central location one block from the edge of campus. It lost its title as Yale's official bookstore, and professors were encouraged to send book orders to the new Yale Bookstore...
...faces. It appears to have been well planned by a cell with international logistical support and sophisticated bombmaking expertise, according to U.S. officials working on the case. The cell-like structure, in which groups are run as tiny bubbles of terror instead of as part of a central hierarchy, makes intelligence work tricky. It also tends to make a group more divorced from reality, enabling it to nurture suicide bombers more easily. And it does wonders for security: cells are often composed of people who have known one another since childhood or fought side by side for years. Infiltration...
Males have not, as a rule, joined Kingsolver's fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying...
...process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the truth anymore," said Ford, who moved to Central Florida 15 years ago from Atlantic City...
...straight shot at Gore's central weakness, the impression he gives voters that he doesn't quite know who he is. True populists who were sick of Clinton's slushy Third Way claptrap love all that fighting talk. But if they really want action, it's Nader who's proposing a Marshall Plan for the inner cities and an $8.50 minimum wage. Instead Gore promises tax credits for college and making that commute a little easier and a prescription-drug entitlement for every grandma. But the gentle program aimed right at the swing voters gets lost because they...