Word: contact
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...murals of his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question is, Is he really in charge?" a U.S. intelligence expert told me. "Is Syria...
...common ache. Dressed all in black, Nick looks pale and tired; the light behind his eyes has gone out. Divorced for eight years, he is entitled to see his 11-year-old daughter every second weekend, but says his ex-wife has devised tactics to block even that paltry contact. He says his blood pressure has soared and he's right on the edge: "All I want to do is see my daughter. It's killing me inside...
...kids - a teenage boy and a little girl. Rob says his ex-wife has tried to demonize him in the children's eyes, with some success. Last year, without warning him, she and the children moved to a town several hours' drive from Sydney, throwing his every-second-weekend contact into jeopardy. Could the little girl be flown to Sydney sometimes to see her dad? Do the trips to Sydney tire her out? These are some of the questions the court is grappling with. Recently, Rob read in a school newsletter that his daughter had been made class captain. Great...
...that the ex-wife doesn't have to account for how the money is spent: maybe the latest payment went toward school fees, or maybe it funded gym membership for her and her new boyfriend. Adding insult to injury, the way child support works is that the less contact you have with your children, the more you pay. Due to report back to the government by the end of the month, the task force is expected to recommend a revamp of the 17-year-old scheme...
...professor, headed “OFF THE RECORD, CONFIDENTIAL.” Wiener’s revelation turns out to be a dud: Lindgren’s e-mail contained only “lists of anti-Bellesiles academics who could be called for quotes, along with their contact information, and suggestions about how the story [on Arming America] should be written.” But Wiener’s brazen decision to flout journalistic standards is unseemly—if not unethical...