Word: cambodia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before Aristide left Haiti last month, his government spent more than $1 million a year on an army of U.S. lawyers and lobbyists. (Nations of similar population and economic means, like Cambodia, typically spend less than a tenth as much on Beltway lobbyists.) Many of the recipients of Aristide's funds, like former California Congressman Ron Dellums, have close ties to the black congressional caucus, which has accused Bush of engineering a "coup" against Aristide. The ousted President's supporters say the largesse was necessary: the Clinton and Bush Administrations withheld $500 million in aid for Haiti as retribution...
...Vietnam was to continue the war as President Lyndon B. Johnson did. But Kerry's calling the Vietnam War "Nixon's war" can be justified. Richard Nixon was a cold warrior. He didn't want to lose in Vietnam, and he ordered the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. Wong Chun Han Singapore...
...reports that he jumped off the Staten Island ferry. Born in Rhode Island, he moved to New York to join an experimental theater troupe after his mother's suicide in 1967. Starting in the 1980s, he created stage monologues on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War (Swimming to Cambodia in 1984) and his own writing (Monster in a Box, 1992), both of which later became films. By the late 1990s, his pieces had become less dark and cynical as he settled into fatherhood and daily yoga on Long Island, but a 2001 car accident fractured his skull and brought...
...Cambodia, stop off in Skun, some 60 km east of the capital, Phnom Penh, to munch on a deep-fried spider. These fist-sized arachnids are crunchy on the outside and taste like cold, gooey chicken on the inside. They cost just 12? apiece, but for a little extra you can wash them down with a swig of spider-infused rice wine...
...Angelina Jolie for Cambodia's forests The Tomb Raider actress is donating 300 cows to impoverished farmers to wean them off logging and hunting. Two years ago, Jolie adopted a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage...