Word: cooke
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Will his status as a rabbi help him in a district where no more than 10% of the electorate is Jewish? Opinion is divided. David Wasserman, the House Editor at the non-partisan Cook Political Report believes it could count against the Democrat: "My biggest concern about Shulman's viability is that he's a rabbi, and I think voters in this district tend to want to keep religion out of politics," he says. But John McArdle, a staff writer for Roll Call, disagrees: "He draws you in with the story and then he speaks very well about policies," says...
...carpenters who work with my nongovernmental organization (NGO) are creating a library for a buyer in Tokyo. They're fitting slivers of wood into a delicate lattice and carving flowers into the walnut shutters. They work fast and smile often. But Nabi, a gentle-voiced 66-year-old cook, is not smiling. He is pessimistic about his country. "We have been promised progress by every government since 1973," he growls, "but it is getting worse and worse...
...Mirwais' own wartime travels took him to Kuwait, where he opened a doner kebab restaurant, and learned that young people were bored with their household fare, and expressed their worldliness by eating things their mother's couldn't cook. So after serving Turkish cuisine in Kuwait, he turned to serving soul food in the erstwhile stamping ground of the Taliban...
...thought I had the picket fence.' CHRISTIE BRINKLEY, supermodel, testifying during her divorce trial about discovering husband Peter Cook's affair...
...instructor. They hoot and holler, gliding toward the beach. At night, the bush echoes with the sounds of their revelry. But there's a feeling that this is all the calm before a storm. Agnes Water probably still looks the way it did in the late 18th century, during Cook's sail-by. But be warned: the 21st Century is closing in fast...