Word: light
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...next challenge for Spyder, besides finding access to Harvard's underground network of tunnels, will be Memorial Hall and Widener. It's an immense challenge, for sure, but for Spyder, it's just another evening of stress relief. For some, calming the nerves means reaching for a Coors Light. For Spyder, however, where every building is a mountain, this handsome first-year heads for the Rockies...
...place opens at the blackjack table I'm watching. A man in his 30s, dark and unshaven and clad entirely in light blue denim, breaks off from his friends at the next table and slips into place. He takes out his roll, which at first seems a big one. As he peels bills away, however, twenties give way to tens, fives and ones. He pulls off all the twenties and most of tens and places them on the felt. Thumbing through the bills, he finds a fifty at the center of the roll and adds it to the pile...
...into Rainmaker Square, the complex's main concourse. At three past eight in the morning, the only thing longer than the line for the buffet is the line for buffet reservations. Despite the crush, some seem relatively uninterested. Among them is a young blonde man, clad in light blue jeans, a sweatshirt and a pair of construction boots, sitting with his head in his hands. He doesn't seem the high-roller type, nor does it seem that his luck has been all that good. Sitting by himself on a set of steps behind a red velvet cordon, he shouldn...
...attitudes of all law enforcement officials. New York is not the only city whose police officers infringe on the rights of minority citizens. Racial profiling is practiced in Maryland and New Jersey. The extent of the corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department is still being brought to light...
...made warships that might be deployed in the Taiwan Strait if Beijing attacks Taiwan. The New York Times reported Wednesday that Taiwan's attempts to buy four U.S.-made destroyers equipped with the advanced Aegis guided missile system has created an acute political dilemma for the Clinton administration, in light of Chinese warnings that such a sale would dangerously escalate tensions with both the U.S. and Taiwan. The President's dilemma, of course, is the one inherited by every tenant of the Oval Office since Nixon - how to manage a "One China" policy that recognizes Beijing as the government...