Word: snookered
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...minutes past happy hour in this smoky Guangdong snooker hall, and the lonely have congregated to shoot another night away. Every night at seven a downcast man claims a table for himself to rack and break and pocket balls in meditative solitude until closing time. Occasionally, he glances over at the yellow-haired man who nightly commands a table next to him. Tonight, the magical geometry of ball to pocket is off, so the Chinese man diverts himself by ambling toward the equally lonely-looking foreigner. "Hello," he says in his best English. "I am Mister Wang...
...further 26 survivors of the siege were taken to Gaza, Israel withdrew all its troops from Bethlehem. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that he expected a "careful and measured" military response to a suicide bombing earlier in the week that had killed 16 Israelis and wounded 57 at a snooker club in the northern town of Rishon Lezion. In Gaza the Palestinian authority police arrested 16 members of the militant group Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the bombing. The arrests seemed to indicate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's willingness, under pressure from the U.S., to take action against militants...
...zone in Yugoslavia 41. Jiang __ will meet with Chen Shui-bian only if they talk about one-China policy 42. Feds concede he may not be a Cuban spy after all 45. World Bank offering 46. "__ had it!" 47. "Without __" (book about history of lynching in the U.S.) 53. Snooker 54. Michael Collins' land 55. "Viva __!" (Palestinians' cheer to the Pope) 56. Aardvark morsel 57. Word for Yorick 58. Egypt's Port...
...worldly ambitions are few. "I'm too big to fit into a Porsche," he muses. He'd like a snooker table. Oh, and a house in North Wales, "so I can fly home like a bird." The greatest satisfaction his financial success has brought him is helping his father buy the family farm. "They nurtured my talent when I didn't even know it," he says of his parents. "I was gently placed into this tradition." Here is a man who just may survive the scourge of celebrity...
...years move in and to check out the renovations on last year's room in Hollis. On a whim, I knocked on my old door, introduced myself to the confused first-year inside, and told him his room was great. I'm jealous. He gets renovations; I get a snooker table. How do you play snooker, anyway...