Word: bittering
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Like the $150,000 Gonzalez, 35, claimed he was paid last year by a wealthy but bitter divorcee who lives near Pensacola. He said she hired him as a gumshoe to trail her ex-husband around the country and dig up anything illegal in his life that she could use to get him arrested. Gonzalez never uncovered anything incriminating; but the story, says Morgan, actually checks out. (See the top 10 unsolved crimes...
Huckabee was in Israel as a guest of the Jewish Reclamation Project of Ateret Cohanim, an Israeli educational foundation that aims to strengthen the Israeli presence in occupied East Jerusalem through the purchase of property for study centers and the families of students and teachers. Against bitter opposition from Palestinian groups and left-wing Israeli organizations, Ateret Cohanim has established yeshiva study institutes in the Muslim and Christian quarters of Jerusalem's Old City and encouraged housing projects for nearly 1,000 Jews in Arab neighborhoods where Jewish residents were forced to leave more than 60 years ago because...
...vultures - despite their morbid reputation - will certainly respond warmly to human assistance. As the vulture barbershop quartet sings to Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book, "We're your friends to the bitter ends ... Who's always eager to extend a friendly claw...
...Dallas, it’s almost as though a hero has finally come home after years in the midst of a bitter struggle with “the Arabs” overseas and the evil intellectuals on the domestic front. And the extent to which Bush has been welcomed with open arms down here sheds light on one of the oddest things about Dallas—the way in which it decides who belongs and who does...
...This will not be easy. Somehow, U.S. diplomats must help convince all three Asian nations that they can rise together, rather than descend into bitter rivalry. Japan will need special attention; its politics are becoming worryingly sclerotic, and it is beginning to feel overshadowed by China. Tokyo may soon need reassurance that Washington still takes the alliance seriously. But for all the difficulties ahead, the accompanying charts should give a glimmer of hope. The U.S. and the three Asian giants are becoming ever more closely interconnected - and not just economically. We have become familiar with the way in which trade...