Word: archly
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...paraphernalia aren’t just style statements—they’re a step towards improving higher education in Iraq. Since December 2007, Jafar has been designing and marketing the shirts, creating the Web site www.rallyforiraq.com in addition to using flyers and a Facebook group. While the arch-shaped logo of the shirt may look simple, it was designed to evoke the spirit of open-mindedness and possibility for improvement that is crucial to the cause. “We’re trying to start an initiative, to raise awareness and keep Iraq in the public mind...
...neighbor with the most leverage over Zimbabwe because of economic ties, but President Mbeki has stuck fast to his policy of "quiet diplomacy," refusing to apply visible pressure on Mugabe. Still, Mbeki's political marginalization within his own party, which made him a lame duck when it chose his arch-rival Jacob Zuma as ANC president last December, has emboldened critics of his Zimbabwe policy. Trade union members in the South African port of Durban refused to offload a Chinese ship carrying armaments for the Zimbabwean government. The vessel, having also been denied entry to Mozambique and Tanzania...
...have won at the polls, much attention has shifted to Zimbabwe's neighbors, foremost among them South Africa, on which the country remains economically dependent. But the South African leadership is internally divided since the ruling African National Congress mutinied against President Thabo Mbeki last December, and chose his arch rival, Jacob Zuma, as party president. And that split may be playing out in South Africa's response to events in Zimbabwe. On Saturday, Mbeki visited Mugabe in Harare and declared that there was no crisis in Zimbabwe, but on Tuesday the ANC's influential National Working Committee said there...
...essay so acute and fervid that we have to quote a bit more of it. "He constitutes a tragedy in himself, his presence in any film being enough to instill beauty. The pent-up violence expressed by the somber phosphorescence of his eyes, his eagle's profile, the imperious arch of his eyebrows, the hard, bitter curve of his lips, the stupendous strength of his torso - this is what he has been given, and what not even the worst of directors can debase... Through him, mise en scène [a film's visual strategy] can confront the most intense...
...with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren a record $100 million for possessing 800 pages of confidential technical data about the cars of arch rival Ferrari. The FIA also stripped McLaren of all its points in the constructors' race, handing the title to Ferrari and splashing fuel onto this year's volatile mix of engines and egos...