Word: firings
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...ones I don't understand, which is most of them. No, I love clouds. The different formations and the color gradations--you can look at them endlessly. You know how a fire is so hypnotic? Clouds are much the same...
KATE MOSS, model, when asked if she had a personal motto. The statement drew fire from eating-disorder experts...
...collection of essays, interviews and short fiction, In Search of Sita, looks at every angle of this complex figure. Sita is a paragon of chastity and beauty but also courage, surviving a trial by fire (the agni pariksha) to prove her faithfulness to her husband Rama. (See pictures of India's history...
...While stability is returning, this relative peace is fragile. Iraqi officials and oil executives have rushed to sign contracts before national elections scheduled for January, since no one knows whether the current government will remain in power. Shahrastani is under fire from opposition politicians, who are complaining of widespread corruption and mismanagement in his ministry. In addition, oil contracts signed during the past five years with the Kurdistan Regional Government, whose three semiautonomous Iraqi provinces until recently exported about 100,000 barrels of oil a day, have been declared illegal by Baghdad, forcing Kurdish leaders to halt exports in October...
...public office. During campaigning, some newspapers dubbed them "Ozawa's princesses" because most were recruited to run for parliament by Ichiro Ozawa, the DPJ's 67-year-old secretary general and chief election strategist. By running a slate of female neophytes - many of them unknowns and outsiders - Ozawa drew fire from some pundits who accused him of offering up unfit candidates to capitalize on voters' increasing concern over Japan's worsening economic plight and their frustration with an ineffective political establishment. (See pictures of young Japanese women...