Word: confidante
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“There was some talk about how he was a confidant of Bush, but nobody could recall him,” said classmate Marshall Win, who is an attorney in South Carolina. “Someone had a yearbook and we looked up his picture but nobody recognized...
The grainy videotape showed 11 minutes of a blindfolded, sobbing man pleading for his life. "I don't want to die," said Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Baghdad. Two American men kidnapped at the same time had already been beheaded on camera. Bigley appealed...
They begin with Patrick, a longtime confidant of Stewart's. A former McKinsey consultant, she helped Stewart craft a multimedia lifestyle conglomerate out of her cookbooks, television specials and endorsement deals. Patrick stood by her side when Stewart rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct...
Al-Harbi was only the third man to take the King's offer, which expires this week. A Saudi official tells TIME that al-Harbi contacted the Saudi embassy in Tehran two weeks ago from a hideout along the Afghan-Iranian border and negotiated his surrender over three days. U.S...
More than one political movie is turning up the Fahrenheit this election season. Among the documentaries, Bush's Brain builds a brief against adviser Karl Rove; Uncovered: The War on Iraq deconstructs the war's rationale; The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Bill Clinton confidant Harry Thomason, assails...