Word: branch
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JULY 11 IndyMac closes main branch at 3 p.m. and tapes notice of FDIC takeover on door...
...busy construction site. Most of the work is taking place on a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, set to open in 2010 and partly funded by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud and French oil giant Total. The Louvre is also building a branch museum in Lens, a depressed former coal-mining town in the north, as part of Loyrette's attempt to broaden its reach within France...
...because it is an area where Gulbuddin Hekmatyar holds some sway. Hekmatyar is one of the most ruthless warlords in Afghanistan's history, though he received financial support from the U.S. during the war with the Soviets. The government of Hamid Karzai has offered Hekmatyar a controversial olive branch in recent months. However, Tamim Nooristani, the ex-governor of the province, told TIME that Hekmatyar's men took part in the attack along with Pakistani and Afghan Taliban...
...defaces HITLER head at Berlin wax museum. Wax Goebbels requests transfer to Buenos Aires branch...
...sports they liked to play and what they'd had for breakfast. While we talked, he held my son Gabriel, whose complicated middle name is Rolihlahla, Nelson Mandela's real first name. He told Gabriel the story of that name, how in Xhosa it translates as "pulling down the branch of a tree" but that its real meaning is "troublemaker...