Word: conquerer
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...really want us to be friends and conquer the business world together," MICHAEL JACKSON once told former porn producer F. Marc Schaffel's answering machine. But Schaffel is suing the pop star for $1.6 million in debts allegedly accrued while he managed Jackson's finances. The singer's lawyer says Schaffel is just another associate who took advantage of Jackson's "almost childlike" nature. As the trial unfolds, details of the star's unusual fiscal choices are emerging...
...Heilongjiang University in Harbin. "Some say the relationship has peaked, but I think it's more like a couple in love: they've decided to marry and now what's left is to learn to live together on a day-to-day basis." Even so, love may not conquer all. China is Russia's biggest customer for military equipment, but Moscow still has enough concern about China's intentions that it won't sell Beijing its best stuff. China wanted a new 4,100-km oil pipeline to go from Siberia directly into its territory, to ensure control over supplies...
From that day forward, T.R. became a fierce champion of what he called the "strenuous life," a self-imposed struggle to live with vigor and determination. He boxed and pulled at weight machines, and his chest expanded along with his capacity to breathe. To conquer his fragility he began, wrote a friend, "constantly forcing himself to do the difficult and even dangerous thing." Years later, T.R. wrote in his autobiography that his life changed forever because he set fearlessness before him "as an ideal" that by dogged practice he achieved. Advised that he had a bad heart and shouldn...
...Scientists like Heather Chapman, program leader at the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment, would love to conquer the "yuck" factor that dominates the recycled-drinking-water debate worldwide. She insists the feared health risks of chemicals in water-from fertility problems to cancers-have been overstated and the effectiveness of modern processes for removing contaminants undersold. "The treatment processes are very, very efficient," Chapman says. "Nothing is completely risk free, but the risk of these things is so tiny compared with the risks that we are exposed to daily, like getting in a car." She says scientists need...
...film as well. But we come not to bury the bad films but to unearth some good ones and sing hallelujah. So all praise to Paolo Sorrentino's The Family Friend, a mordant Italian comedy about a gnarled moneylender and the beautiful young woman he hopes to corrupt and conquer; it's the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale with a toxic twist, and the smartest entertainment at Cannes...