Word: ansary
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prior to 2003. As recently as last weekend, senior diplomats from those countries met in Paris to debate a new set of measures. But spurring the urgency behind those measures was the U.S. argument, backed by most Europeans, that Iran was running a secret weapons program. Now, says Ali Ansari, director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, "the E.U. and the Security Council are in a bind. They went down this road [of imposing sanctions on Iran] because they felt that Iran had a weapons program. [The new U.S. report] complicates matters...
...town? (“We get fat kids!” “Great—we get freckles and lisps!” “Sassy black kids!” “Amputees!”) Creators/writers/stars Paul Scheer, Rob Heubel, and Aziz Ansari may not be household names yet, but keep your eye on these fellas.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 36%“The Maria Bamford Show” (SuperDeluxe.com)Updated periodicallySeason Two Premiere: Sept. 2Okay, this one isn’t technically a TV show, but bear with me. Maria Bamford...
...Predator drones to do-it-yourself airplane kits. Rutan's $26 million SpaceShipOne proved in 2004 that a privately built vehicle could reach the edge of space and do it twice in five days safely. The plane, bankrolled by former Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, won the $10 million Ansari X Prize (sponsored by a foundation seeking radical breakthroughs in space travel) that year and removed, once and for all, what Carmack calls the "giggle factor" in private spaceflight. "This is real. We're not dreaming anymore," Branson says, all signs of his Necker Island playfulness gone. "You could argue...
...military and NATO forces without the direct assistance of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. "This means that according to his confession, the ISI of Pakistan is directly involved in funding, arming and supporting the Taliban and other opposition groups against the government of Afghanistan," says NDS spokesman Sayed Ansari...
...tell anyone up here but I've lost a few little things already, like my lip-gloss." ANOUSHEH ANSARI, entrepreneur who paid $20 million for a visit to the International Space Station, blogging from space about the difficulty of keeping track of her things in zero-gravity conditions