Word: ground
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...just like tourists, even jaded natives love to stroll through Central Park, maybe kick back in a paddleboat, nosh a hot dog, gather for the world's best people watching. It's an oasis--today a safe one, usually--so how on June 11 did it become a hunting ground for a roving pack of sexual aggressors? How did four or five dozen guys, some obviously drunk and stoned, get away with groping and in some cases stripping as many as 47 women during the festivities of Puerto Rican Day? What happened to the new New York City...
...there, we get blamed for being aggressive. If we don't act fast, we get attacked. It's paralyzing." The paralysis may be part of the reason the murder rate has risen 12% this year after a modest increase last year as well. Still, there should be a middle ground between gunning down innocents and sitting around eating doughnuts. Says Mitchell Moss, an urban expert at New York University: "Cops know the difference between inciting a riot and controlling a riot, but they are acting as if they...
...were to get the green light today, it would still be two years before we could break ground," Cuno said, adding that, at the earliest, the museum would not be completed until...
...Thayer is embroiled in a stupid fun rivalry with nearby Holworthy Hall. Legend has it that the dispute originated when Holworthy was built on Thayer's polo ground, or vice versa, depending on who you ask. The rivalry usually surfaces in "Holworthy Sucks!"-"Thayer Swallows!" shouting bouts. At time, the conflict escalates to more serious warfare involving water fights and hostages...
...Version 3.0 of will-she-or-won't-she originates from a confrontational April grilling of Gore by Justice investigators over familiar ground - the Buddhist temple, the coffees, the fund-raising calls, the iced-tea defense. Gore, sources said, got defensive and angry, and prosecutors (including the whistleblower this time, Justice's campaign finance division head Robert Conrad) came away more suspicious than ever. They told Reno so. Someone at Justice (apparently not Conrad) decided to leak it to Republicans on the Hill, and Arlen Specter saw fit to tell the world...