Word: sectioning
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Other alums also lent a hand. Conan C. O'Brien '85, last year's Class Day Speaker and two-time Lampoon president, wrote an unsigned piece for the last section of the book...
Clinton went south to meet with President Andres Pastrana and formally launch a controversial $1.3 billion military aid package to help the Colombian government battle an unholy alliance of drug lords and Marxist guerrillas. As a welcoming gesture, the rebels bombed three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town...
Evidence later obtained from underwater cameras shows that the blast tore open the entire double-hulled forward section of the 505-ft. vessel, an area the size of a school gymnasium. Seawater would have slammed into the torpedo and cruise-missile compartments, instantly killing the men on duty there. In the control room just aft of the shattered weapons compartments, Lyachin, the five staff officers and the dozen or so officers and petty officers manning the ship's controls would have had no time to react before the combined power of the blast and seawater tore through, destroying the gleaming...
Joel Stein--man, reporter, large yellow bird--has a job waiting for him here at PETA anytime he wants to climb back into the chicken outfit and hit the road as he did when he joined us for a protest in the chicken section of a Delaware supermarket [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 7]. The PETA Commando Chicks that Stein traveled with were so impressed with his stint as a renegade feathered protester that they have offered to personally help him "chicken out" and go vegetarian. ALISON GREEN, CORRESPONDENT PETA Norfolk...
...their conflicts are real and honest. Sex avoids p.c. feminism and love-conquers-all romanticism. These over-30 women can read the New York Times wedding section--"the single woman's sports pages"--with both envy and contempt for the 24-year-old brides nabbing investment bankers and ditching their careers. It also avoids pat sitcom solutions. When Miranda and Steve parted, he wasn't wackily written off but instead left as he showed up--a decent guy who proved wrong...