Word: agente
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...reality show. But with over 18,000 avid viewers, their actions certainly weren’t going unnoticed. These women were intelligent, successful rising stars with real future potential. The female contestants included a senior account executive, a political consultant working toward her doctorate, a multimillion-dollar real estate agent and a former global promotional marketing manager. But rather than utilize their experience and their brains, these women degenerated from promising potential business gurus to sexually-fixated jokes. For an industry that already has too few female role models, it is unfortunate that the ones in the limelight would decide...
...government to better coordinate domestic-security efforts. The last thing a conservative Republican wanted to do was create the biggest new federal bureaucracy in 50 years. But pressure grew to the point that even Republicans were abandoning him. When Bush finally did reverse course--on the day FBI agent Coleen Rowley went public about the 9/11 clues that had fallen through the cracks--he went on the air in a national address and insisted that a new Homeland Security Department was needed. And in the months that followed, he even helped Republicans ride the issue to victory...
...spot (in which, coincidentally, parts of models seem to defy gravitas). His record label called the ad "a great way to reach people with Bob's music." It's also a great way to hang out with lingerie models. We suspect Rod Stewart is already dialing his agent...
With a dramatic, deadly raid in a Madrid suburb and sweeps in several countries, antiterrorism efforts in Europe intensified last week. Three suspects in last month's Madrid train bombings blew themselves up as Spanish police engaged them in a standoff Saturday night that also killed an agent. Officials had earlier in the week identified a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, as "leader and coordinator" of the train blasts that killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked...
...mosques, and soon he wasn't able to listen anymore, only to talk about Islam and the misery of the world." According to Spanish court documents, Fakhet's activities turned more radical once an invasion of Iraq - with Spanish participation - became a prospect. He worked as a sales agent for much of last year, but at the same time was gathering acolytes in Madrid mosques. He stopped showing up at his job in January, and, according to a neighbor, left his apartment in northeast Madrid just three days before the bombing - still owing two months' rent. His body...