Word: peter
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Bala took a pass from the corner and Gustafson made a spectacular sliding save, closing the five-hole on a sure-goal. Fortunately, the rebound popped out to sophomore defenseman Peter Capouch, who lifted the puck over the prone goalie to cut the Saints lead...
...foundations so painstakingly built by those who sought peace could not stand the weight of bitter history. Northern Ireland's promising experiment in coalition government ended after only 72 days when Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Mandelson, suspended it last week and reimposed direct rule from London. He was avoiding what he considered a worse fate--the resignation of David Trimble, the government's First Minister and leader of the Ulster Unionists who in November promised his party to quit unless the Irish Republican Army began to surrender its guns and explosives...
Thanks to high-tech baby-making techniques, women and men will increasingly no longer need to mate in the traditional ways, and Barbara Ehrenreich explores the implications with Swiftian wit. Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic, says goodbye to politics, predicting that instead religion will become the primary force in shaping society. Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, takes a different tack in answering the question, "Who Will Be the Next Elite?" The answer: not yesterday's Wasp or today's SAT high scorer, but the young entrepreneur...
...free-agent ball players can one name, or publishing executives, or authors? "I do" is a promise of loyalty that often lasts until the first Finnair hostess comes down the aisle. Carville notes that more people turn on Presidents than stick--though there are ways of doing both, as Peter Edelman of the Department of Health and Human Services proved when he waited for the passage of Clinton's welfare bill before resigning because he could not stomach it. He was acting out of principled thinking. But whatever one's reasons, total constancy to the ideal is unrealistic...
...architects, who are prone anyway to a kind of Hegelian metaphysics, a sense that they are not just designing department stores and offices but rendering the spirit of the age in steel and stone. In recent years, some of the more theoretically inclined among them, such as Peter Eisenman and Steven Holl, have been connecting their designs to things like French literary analysis, the kind that presumes to dismantle the falsehoods of language, or the "chaos theory" of physics, with its universe built on bubbling disorder. To put it mildly, these are notions that conventional buildings, with their aura...