Word: bulgaria
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...rich boys, Andrew went to Charterhouse and Cambridge, as he predicted; became a solicitor, as he predicted; at 35 a partner; at 49 took a job as an executive at an industrial gas company. John became a Queen's Counsel, married the daughter of an ambassador to Bulgaria and devotes himself to charities for Bulgarian children because, he says, "Who wants to be the richest corpse in the graveyard?" But he hasn't lost his corrosive upper-crust wit: "I reckon if I shoot the horses, shoot the wife, and only drink Bulgarian wine, I may be able to retire...
...triumph of one people being the tragedy of another is eloquently captured in Sandy Tolan's book, The Lemon Tree - essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the difficulty in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolan chronicles the true story of Dalia Eshkenazi, whose family flees post-Holocaust Bulgaria in 1948 to live the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state in the Holy Land. The new Israeli government provides them with an abandoned Arab house in the town of Ramla, in which she grows up. One summer morning in 1967, she's sitting in the garden near...
Hayden spent two years in the 1980s hunting military secrets of the cold war as a defense attaché in the U.S. embassy in Bulgaria, where, according to the Times of London, he was known to dress as a workman and ride buses listening to off-duty soldiers talking (he speaks Bulgarian). That was about the extent of his undercover work; he was always more in the business of data analysis than field operations. He has considerable public relations savvy. When he took over the NSA in 1999, it was still a very secretive place--the nerve center of U.S. espionage...
...crossbar no way," writes Raymond from the Hague, Netherlands, on one board), organize pickup games and rant against the most severe problem facing the sport: racism. Members can blog, upload their own soccer video or view thousands of other clips, from the latest Arsenal highlights to Nikola from Bulgaria juggling the ball--in slow motion, no less--in his bedroom. "Some Tricks I Make!" reads the title...
...Turkish refineries without passing through any war zones. Whether the gushers come in or not, Kurdistan is already booming. On the border with Turkey, about a half-hour drive from the DNO rig, it's clear Kurdistan has become Europe's gateway to Iraq. Trucks from Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands are backed up for many kilometers. Sea cargo from Dubai is diverted through Jordan, Syria and Turkey before reaching Kurdistan, where it is transferred to Iraqi trucks before proceeding to Baghdad. That route is the only choice: driving north through Iraq from the Persian Gulf...