Word: beckham
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...face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons now. In Britain, the worst royal scandal anyone could scare up this year was over a rape that allegedly occurred in 1989. And a gang of thugs wanted to kidnap Victoria Beckham, a.k.a. Posh Spice, now - that's like stealing someone's Enron stock. Even weirder were the public debates. Last year we were arguing about cloning and stem-cell research. This year, we pretended to argue about things we agreed upon long ago. The New York Times used its new front...
...measure of Victoria Beckham's fame that her rescue from a group of would-be kidnappers was only one of the major news stories she generated last week. There was also the matter of her new record deal and a squabble with a British soccer club over her name. Once known more popularly as Posh Spice, Beckham is currently half of England's most celebrated couple; she is married to soccer star David Beckham, who plays for Manchester United. Their combined profiles and incomes made her the target of a shadowy group of alleged art thieves who plotted to take...
Hollington was sporting a David-Beckham style mohawk, a hairdo that attracted a small gathering of Harvard supporters to position themselves behind the Yale net. The drunken fans made sure Hollington knew just how they felt about his haircut, as well as his play in general...
...Beyond Manututo, a hot and dusty seaside town where boys with deflated footballs at their feet dream of being Beckham, the country opens up. From here the road cuts through lush rice paddies, across salt pans and alongside mangrove swamps, traversing desolate country more characteristic of outback Australia than Asia...
...Kashmir issue or not (an issue that Indian politicians say they’d love to solve without international interference, and for obvious reasons). And until a solution is found, if at all, people will continue with their daily routines—teenagers will watch Bend it Like Beckham alongside Star Wars, sipping on milkshakes and lassis; adults will chew paan (betel nut) and continue to procrastinate at work; everyone will perspire in the soaring heat and curse the government; and everyone will enjoy a good laugh at the expense of George “Dubya” Bush...