Word: carded
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...that deteriorating dynamic? Clinton met with Kim for 3½ hours on Tuesday evening. Even if the former President didn't - as the White House insisted - bring a specific message to Kim from Obama, it's safe to assume the two men didn't play hearts (Clinton's favorite card game) for three hours. Matters of substance, in some detail, came up, and even before Clinton can be debriefed, the outside world has learned at least a couple of things from the visit. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...hard to beat free access to a washer and dryer and fully equipped kitchen, but swaps entail more planning than simply whipping out a credit card for a vacation package. Exchange seekers often contact dozens of people before they find someone willing and appropriate. For starters, location really matters. Kathleen Dwyer, a retired assistant principal who has been exchanging for six years, says she fielded lots of offers to swap when she posted her apartment in Manhattan. Now that she exchanges only her vacation home--an old sea captain's house in a fishing village in Nova Scotia--swapping inquiries...
...younger - who made up the Revolutionary United Front, a ragtag armed militia supported by Liberia's President Charles Taylor (now on trial for war crimes at the Hague) that devastated the country during an 11-year civil war that ended in 2002. Everywhere they went they left a calling card of chopped-off limbs, raped women and senseless bloodshed. Tens of thousands were killed and a third of Sierra Leone's 6 million people were displaced. (Read "'Lies and Rumors': Liberia's Charles Taylor on the Stand...
...party. Playing political chicken with some of the most powerful figures in the theocracy is unlikely to end favorably. Meanwhile, the hard-liners who consolidated their power in the aftermath of the election crisis are now seeing Ahmadinejad not just as too much of a wild card but also as too moderate...
...Whoever the opponents are next year, McConnell's maneuvering has erased any doubt who is in control of almost all things Republican in the Bluegrass State. But there remains a wild card: McConnell is certainly not in control of Jim Bunning. And by forsaking a third term, Bunning gains something else: he's now officially a man with nothing to lose, which to McConnell must be a scary thought...