Word: stringing
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...absence of a peace deal with Syria - which Barak had hoped would rein in Hezbollah - Israel had hoped that its Lebanese allies would hold their own long enough to string a line of U.N. peacekeepers between the guerrillas and the Israeli border. But the instantaneous collapse of the South Lebanon Army has rendered that impossible, even in the unlikely event that the U.N. force, whose role in Lebanon has never been more than that of spectators, had been willing to insert itself between two armies who have reached no peace agreement. That leaves Israel's northernmost population centers vulnerable...
...latest play is running successfully on Broadway. A string of first-rate revivals has, in recent years, burnished a glowing reputation. There's even a new opera based on one of his tragedies that has a shot at entering the modern repertory. Alone of his theatrical generation, Arthur Miller, at 84, remains a living, vital force on our stages...
Rootin', tootin', acquisition-mad MCI Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers may have finally met his match: the antitrust boys at the Justice Department. Ebbers' proposed $130 billion hookup with Sprint - the latest in a spectacular string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third...
Joining Lin were Benjamin Loeb '89, a pianist, Mary Rosen, a cellist in the Mendelsohn string quartet who is in residence at Harvard, and violinist Nokuthula E. Ngwenyama, a student at the Divinity School...
...event, the product of three months work, was composed of what the BJs called a "random" collection of talent--from a reverse stripper (who strode out wearing a g-string, and then sexily re-dressed) to the men's basketball team to the women's a cappella group, The Pitches (whose members broke into a catfight...