Word: dinned
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...din from that battle has died down, but its significance continues to resound. For, by taking on the European political and business élite - and winning - Mittal demonstrated in a stunningly audacious way just how much the world has changed. Here was an upstart intruder from a country long classed as part of the developing world, scooping up a European gem that Dollé at one point (though perhaps unwisely, given later history) described as the Airbus of steel. And Mittal, assuredly, is but the first of many. Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, Russians and other entrepreneurs from emerging economies...
...Christmas play. “He was very furious. There was not a smile on his face because he was beating that drum and he never missed a beat,” she said. That determination continues to his musical endeavors today. Terrelonge is a tenor with the Harvard Din & Tonics, and he used to sing with Under Construction, a Christian a capella group. A former BGLTSA social chair, he also works with Building on Diversity (BOND) to organize social events for non-heterosexual students, in part because he did not come out until his freshman year at Harvard...
...grimmer picture of Iraq than Bush has been willing to admit, and it repudiates many of his notions about what's sustaining the violence. Forty percent of Iraq's population of 26 million now lives in the "highly insecure" provinces of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala and Salah ad Din. Bush blames the increasing violence on al-Qaeda, but the report notes that that the terror group is now responsible for only a "small portion" of it. The sectarian violence between Shi'a and Sunnis in and around Baghdad "causes the largest number of civilian casualties. Iraq is in the grip...
...that unusual: Muslim communities in Britain have long turned to the Sharia council to settle such civil matters as property disputes and divorce battles, though their rulings are not legally binding. The system is much like that used by observant Jews, who regularly take civil matters to a Beth Din rabbinical court in north London, where they are resolved according to Jewish...
...fact, very few people - and certainly not all those who sit on the Sharia councils - believe the courts should stray into criminal matters or particularly sticky disputes. All they would like, say Sharia law supporters, is to be officially recognized as a court of arbitration, like the London Beth Din Jewish court...