Word: armfuls
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...many, the document's specifics were only a part of Sunday's contest. Five year-old Joaquin Claros, who was hanging onto his mom's arm outside a La Paz polling station on Sunday, knew what was at stake. Mom and dad, he exclaimed excitedly, had voted...
...still its editor in chief. But longtime Playboy Enterprises Inc. CEO and even longer time Hef daughter Christie Hefner will step down at the end of January, so change is inevitable. And Playboy Enterprises Inc. stock has been vulgar, dropping 90% in a year. The company has an entertainment arm in Los Angeles and licenses its name and bunny logo to anyone who'll pay, including a wine company in 2008, but is said to make most of its money from its less well-known, more hard-core enterprises such as Spice TV and Clubjenna.com, named for porn star Jenna...
...Oratorio,” the stage is dominated by its red velvet curtain and a large chest of drawers, offering little hint of the spectacle to come. Shortly after the house lights dim, though, a voicemail message plays in French and the top-left drawer opens. A pale, lithe arm extends into the darkness, a lit cigarette in its hand. The next few minutes are simultaneously hilarious, disturbing, and beautiful, and they aptly set the tone for the rest of the show. An impossible series of limbs reach out from within the drawers to dress each other, light a candle...
...Senators' griping over the bill is evidence of how the newly minted President has painted himself into a corner, one that will take some unpleasant arm-twisting to get out of. To underline bipartisanship, the Obama Administration had hoped the stimulus plan would get 80 votes in the Senate, luring significant Republican backing rather than having to ram it through with a simple Democratic majority. But Senate aides on both sides of the aisle say that while the bill is likely to pass, such overwhelming support would be difficult if not impossible to garner. Even overcoming the Senate...
With that growth came near disaster, as big loans to Cuban sugar planters went bad. What saved the bank was the salesmanship of Charles E. Mitchell, head of City's securities arm, who repackaged the bad Cuban debt--and went on in the 1920s to find ever more creative ways to sell securities and lend to the burgeoning middle class. Mitchell, who became president of the bank in 1921, built City into the first financial supermarket. When everything financial turned toxic in the early 1930s, he became the most prominent scapegoat for the disaster. He was the main target...