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1. Iraqi lawmakers convene a special parliamentary session to consider a last-minute compromise meant to gain Sunni support for a draft constitution.
2. As weather clears and aid begins pouring into Pakistan, rescuers using search dogs and listening devices pull a dazed girl from the rubble of her home.
3. A 64-year-old retired teacher seen on videotape being beaten by New Orleans police pleads not guilty to charges of being drunk and resisting arrest.
4. President Bush says his advisers are telling conservatives about the religious beliefs of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers because they are interested in her background.
5. British tabloids report actor Daniel Craig has been tapped to be the next 007, replacing Pierce Brosnan, which will make Craig the first blond Bond.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. convene
convene convenes convening convened
If someone convenes a meeting or conference, they arrange for it to take place. You can also say that people convene or that a meeting convenes. (FORMAL)
Last August he convened a meeting of his closest advisers at Camp David.
Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.
...the convening of an international peace conference.
V-ERG
2. tap
4 tap taps tapping tapped
If you tap a resource or situation, you make use of it by getting from it something that you need or want.
He owes his election to having tapped deep public disillusion with professional politicians.
The company is tapping shareholders for s15.8 million.
The Campbell Soup Company says it will try to tap into Japan's rice market.
VB
3. blonde
2 blonde blonder
Someone who is blonde has blonde hair.
She was tall, blonde, and attractive.
He was blonder than his brother.
...the striking blond actor.
ADJ-GRADED The form blonde is usually used to refer to women, and blond to refer to men
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