Word: astride
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...understatement - the tragedy was quintessentially international. Europe and the entire world watched the disaster unfold on television and the Internet - images that inevitably brought to mind the Bali terrorist bombing of 2002 - and slowly came to grips with the scope of the catastrophe. "It was awful," said Astrid von Sternheim, 27, as she waited at Frankfurt Airport for her parents Werner and Diana to arrive from Patong Beach in Phuket. "We saw the pictures on television and recognized the street and the hotels." Her parents survived because they happened to be on an upper floor. Families were torn apart, lovers...
...perfect place to carry out such a project." He found the perfect property in the palazzetto, an abandoned four-story private mansion abutting the Spanish Steps with a second-floor garden and a rooftop terrace with a 360? view of Rome. In the wine bar, interior designer Astrid Wirth, Roberto's wife, created a clubby atmosphere with dark wood and plush red-and-cream velvet sofas and stools. The library, a bookcase-lined dining room, seats 20 and displays impressive bottles and wine literature. There's dining on the garden terrace, and a private party may be reserved...
...RECORD Belgrade The U.S. told Serbia to arrest three notorious war criminals or risk losing tens of millions of dollars in American aid. Frankfurt German prosecutors charged an American, Astrid Eyzaguirre, and her German lover, Osman Petmezci, with planning to bomb a U.S. military base in Heidelberg. Medellin In Colombia, a car bomb placed near the office of a regional prosecutor killed at least four people and injured 30. Police blamed guerrillas. Moscow A court began hearing 61 lawsuits claiming $59 million in compensation for deaths and injuries caused by lethal gas used during the October theater siege. Harare Zimbabwe...
...German operation to arrest Osman Petmezci and Astrid Eyzaguirre in September seemed to go like clockwork. Acting on a tip from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from...
...Janet Fitch novel (and Oprah book) that inspired this perfect-child-in-a-rotten-world drama is a cozy read. Teenage foster child Astrid (Alison Lohman) has monumentally bad luck with mother figures (Michelle Pfeiffer, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger) but endures by taking on the attitudes of the women who disappoint her. Somehow the viewer endures too, because Lohman's pensive loveliness carries the film...