Word: faso
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...OPINIONS, the Cornell Daily Sun berates New York gubernatorial candidate John Faso for accusing his opponent, Eliot Spitzer, of trying to "force gay marriage down the throats of many New Yorkers" at the debate in Ithaca on Tuesday night: "Despite raucous laughter from the audience, Faso appeared unaware of the double entendre." At the Daily Pennsylvanian, a columnist thinks that people often confuse Penn for a state school because of its name: "Not only can a state school name save us from scornful jealousy, it can also inject us with a healthy dose of humility...
...equally important breakthrough came the next day when he flew to his father, who was on a state visit to Burkina Faso, and received his blessing for the initiative. "I will see if we can be friends," he quotes his father saying over a lamb and rice lunch. Gaddafi dispatched foreign intelligence chief Musa Kusa to Geneva in mid-April for a meeting with top MI6 and CIA officials, who traveled secretly to Tripoli in September for a face-to-face with Gaddafi himself. The Libyans agreed in principle to throw its WMD projects wide open...
...brand is also dedicated to fair trade and eco-conscious business practices, like helping rose farmers in Turkey convert to biodynamic agriculture and teaching women in Burkina Faso how to turn shea nuts into butter so they can earn money to send their children to school...
...with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...arrived in Monrovia in the middle of the night aboard a creaky Fokker civilian plane flown by Burkina Faso air force pilots. Also aboard were four military advisers to Taylor's forces from Burkina Faso and two other journalists. When we touched down at Robertsfield, the national airport, the plane's window shades were pulled down by the crew, and the airport lights were doused as soon as the aircraft's engines were switched...