Word: archness
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...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...
...press coverage had been largely sympathetic to the McCanns. But after they were named suspects, more stories falsely suggesting their possible involvement in Madeleine's disappearance began appearing. Media experts here say the Express papers were the worst offenders, printing a steady - and in circulation terms lucrative - flow of arch but unsubstantiated innuendo. "There was a drip, drip, drip of negative splash headlines," says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics. "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found," claimed one ludicrous Star headline, while the Express screamed: "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape." Some stories...
...years of dictatorship, so he began planning a museum in Baghdad where people could search the records of Saddam’s atrocities for the names of family members and friends. He even secured a site for the museum around the crossed swords of Saddam’s Victory Arch...