Word: impromptue
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...talk to one another. It seemed to work. Milosevic was spotted one evening chatting up a senior Bosnian official at Packe's, a sports bar on the base. Such informal contacts were greatly aided by dozens of U.S. mapmakers, constitutional lawyers and military strategists. Those advisers held so many impromptu meetings that the living quarters swiftly began to resemble a college dorm during finals week, with diplomats gathering on the fly to thrash out issues big and small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, who acted as a sort...
...like I made it for all of us," he says. "That's what really pains me. I feel like I am the only one who had the opportunity to succeed." Active in student government and the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall wears a suit to class every day, always anticipating an impromptu meeting with a school administrator. A mentor to fellow black students and local inner-city youth, he shepherded 50 Emory students to Washington last week...
Simpson's impromptu talk with the Times also raised journalistic questions. Using the element of surprise--he phoned Times TV reporter Bill Carter without warning--and refusing to answer any questions about the murder, Simpson effectively set the agenda and got the unchallenged forum he wanted. Still, the Times could hardly be faulted for printing the results of Simpson's first extended interview, however limited...
Keeve also dogs all the "girls" who've lost their last names on the way to supermodel stardom. It's a role he wears well, having spent his career as a photographer for the world's high-fashion magazines. There are the requisite impromptu backstage antics--and a few staged ones. When Keeve sets up a photo shoot to capture Isaac and his favorite model, even Cindy pushes the lens back with a playful, "My pores are not that small...
...impromptu undercover operation was a piece of serendipity. Galster had come to the village of Krasny Yar to encourage the Udege to set up an anti poaching squad. Galster is the executive director of a private environmental-security organization called the Investigative Network, which helps fund the antipoaching team. Seeing a group of Americans in Krasny Yar, Leonid, the poacher/trader, had approached Sergei and offered his services as a hunting guide. After a short conversation it turned out that Leonid had a tiger skin and bones he wanted to sell. Sergei arranged for us to see the skin later...