Word: aires
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Korea. I turned in my application in September, and two months later I was in Beijing, where I plunked down $4,000 in cash for the 10-day trip. The next day my fellow travelers and I received our visas and boarded a Soviet-era Tupolev plane belonging to Air Koryo, the national North Korean airline, for the two-hour flight to Pyongyang. We had no itinerary because our trip was considered "secret" information at that point. After landing, we were asked to hand over any cell phone, computer with GPS, radio and video camera?all forbidden from that moment...
...diversity, which was the subject of a UNESCO agreement signed in Paris in 2005 by more than 140 countries from all over the world. That is one way in which we can justify the strong, protective measures we have taken for the past 20 years, such as quotas for air-time for French songs on the radio, or advances against box-office receipts for movie producers. Such measures have enabled us to maintain a good share of our own domestic market...
Henry Moore once said that "sculpture is an art of the open air." That's certainly true about his sculpture, all those massive blobs of bronze sunning themselves in plazas all over the world. Moore wanted his art, especially the monumental work that dominated his output after World War II, to be seen outdoors, in primal settings that bring out its kinship to the mineral fundaments of the earth itself...
...might have been an effective gambit had Huckabee stopped there. But two days later, he held a memorable press conference in which he announced that he had produced an anti-Romney ad ... but he wasn't going to air it ... except for the entire press corps, which he proceeded to do. This attempt to turn the other cheek while slapping his opponent was greeted, appropriately, with derisive laughter. In his spasm of attacks, though, Huckabee did raise an important point: "If a person becomes President by being dishonest," he said, "he won't start being honest when he gets there...
...From the air, Kenya is a country on fire. Plumes of blue smoke rise from villages across the Rift Valley. More fires burn in the sprawling townships on the edge of the capital, Nairobi. On the ground, the city is gripped by fear. Police officers man roadblocks across its main arteries and sirens wail on its outer edges. Violence is sporadic, and sudden. In the slum of Karobongi, witnesses said the feared Mungiki sect - a group that weaves Kikuyu tribal mythology with gang rule in the slums - hacked to death several people from rival tribes in reprisal killings, leaving...