Word: aug
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...talk, titled "The Missiles of August," Hersh explained why he thought the bombing of the sites in Afghanistan and Sudan on Aug. 20 was a mistake...
...August, the White House said the attacks were in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which bin Laden was allegedly involved. The American bombs were dropped three days after Clinton's televised apology for his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky...
...that fateful night of Aug. 16, Clinton reportedly recited the 51st Psalm, which King David recited after the prophet Nathan reprimands him for his misdeeds in connection with that other woman, Bathsheba. David lusts after another man's wife, sleeps with her, and then has the man killed. Not exactly the King's high point...
...Cornet (1852-1926), designer of the unfinished church of the Sagrada Famolia and the greatest architect that Barcelona, or Spain itself, has ever produced. Back in 1992, the auxiliary bishop of Barcelona, Joan Carrera, called the beatification move "a legitimate and reasonable proposal." In a pastoral letter last Aug. 23, Ricard Maria Cardinal Carles declared his intent to begin the long and labyrinthine process toward beatifying "the universal Catalan architect." There is even an Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudi, headed by an architect named Jose Manuel Almuzara...
...invest in large companies, buy a low-fee index fund. But to invest in smaller stocks, it's worth paying more for an active fund manager. That's the upshot of a new study by Morningstar, which shows that for the five years ending Aug. 31, the S&P 500 index outperformed actively managed large-cap funds. Managed small-cap funds, however, almost always bested the Russell 2000 index...