Noted & quoted.'We're doing the job President Bush refuses to do.' --Chris Simcox, 44, founder of the Minuteman Project Minuteman Project often refers to two separate factions of groups formed to deter illegal crossings of all the borders of the United States, with most undocumented people coming from Mexico. , a citizen group that is patrolling the Mexican border in search of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. The group argues that the U.S. Border Patrol is not doing a good enough job. (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, April 1) 'The only thing we've gotten is small. packets of food and supplies. Where the money is, we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . It's just meetings, meetings, meetings.' --Samsur Bahri, a shopkeeper, on tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia. (The New York Times, April 6) 'It's similar to real polo, but without the manure.' --Alex Ko, 34, who organizes Segway polo Segway polo is a team sport which started to gain some measure of popularity after being played by members of the Bay Area Segway Enthusiasts Group (Bay Area SEG) in 2004. The Bay Area SEG was not the first to play polo on a Segway HT; a team sponsored by Mobile Entertainment matches in Sunnyvale, Calif. Instead of horses, players ride Segways, the $5,000 self-balancing transportation devices that were first developed as a short-distance alternative to cars. (The New York Times, April 1) |
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