Word: bows
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...Tuesday morning he appeared before a packed news conference at Moscow's posh Slavyanskaya Hotel, clad in black tuxedo, paisley cummerbund and bow tie. Asked about how his much publicized anti-Semitic remarks square with reports that his father was Jewish, he said he envies Jews because they are "the richest nation in the world." Then he reaffirmed one of his pet projects: replacing Moscow's Jewish television announcers with blue-eyed Russians...
...reign in hell than serve in heav'n." Indeed, to some, Satan even provides lessons in piety. The Sufis, the mystics of Islam, imagined that the pride of Iblis may have been blind ideological purity, a supremely flawed political correctness. According to one account, when he was asked to bow before Adam, God's newest and best-beloved creation, Iblis refused. "There is only one God," he declared, "and I will make obeisance only to Him." More of a monotheist than God himself, Iblis was banished from Heaven...
...Keegan has absorbed in more than three decades of studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands...
FIND A STRONG RIGHT ARM Clinton had a formidable, if unlikely, ally in Newt Gingrich, a Republican who has a reputation for shooting first and aiming later. The White House dithering led the Republican whip to fire a warning shot across the Administration's bow. Reflecting the fears of his colleagues that Clinton would blame them if NAFTA failed, Gingrich called the President's | efforts at that point "pathetic." Unless Clinton could come up with 100 Democratic votes, Gingrich said, he could not deliver the 118 Republicans needed for victory...
...Bow Street Flowers, a new flower shop on the corner of Bow Street and Plympton street, plans to open today, according to its manager Serge Delisle...