Word: pairing
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Imagine random bombs going off in your city from time to time, and you can get a sense of the pressure and fear that have tightened their grip on Moscow. The city is still traumatized by the apartment-house bombings that killed 226 last September and a pair of bombings in other cities that killed 81. At the time, Russian officials pinned those attacks on Chechen separatists--and used the explosions as justification for a bloody war that is still under way. But no one responsible for the Moscow bombings was ever caught. The latest attack may also go unsolved...
When they first met as Ph.D. students, the pair say they found each other obnoxious--"I still find him obnoxious," adds Brin--but were thrust together by a computer-science project aimed at devising better ways of searching the Web. From the start, it was hard-core geek love...
Last February, as police hid in the rafters of the firm's warehouse, the suspects gained entry, only to get a big surprise. The pair are charged with embezzling $3 million over 2 1/2 years, a significant chunk of revenue for the $25 million-a-year firm. They could face 10 to 12 years in prison...
BUSH: On the morning of my inauguration, my mother hands me this letter from Dad with a pair of his cufflinks. He called them his most treasured possession. They were the cufflinks his dad gave to him when he went off to war in 1943. At first I didn't think about the continuity, the grandfather part. A lot was going on. The main thing I thought was that it was from my dad. He was saying he was proud of me. But later I reread the letter and thought about it. It ended with, "Now it's your turn...
...ahead in the Nutmeg State, you needed an ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night to his manse, slip on a pair of plaid pants and a kelly blazer and announce: "Jeezus, these people. Gawd, I have to wash my hands.... I mean, they're sooooo pushy. Lovey, could you pour me a Pimm's Cup?" Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, I "revealed" was actually named... Muffy. As a Jew, I figured...