Word: forme
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...after an exodus of investment managers left HMC with a substantial vacuum in its bond division. Former bond managers Maurice Samuels and David R. Mittelman, who earned $25.3 million and $25.4 million respectively in 2004, left the company with legendary HMC CEO Jack R. Meyer in 2005 to form a private hedge fund, Convexity Capital Management, after enduring repeated public criticism for what some considered to be exorbitant...
...Corps unveiled its pixelated MARPAT (MARine PATtern) uniform, featuring small, square blocks of color dubbed "visual white noise" by one observer. Because its digitized composition better reflects the dappled textures and irregular edges found in nature, it has since been adopted by all branches of the military in one form or another. (Read "America's Last Draftee: 'I'm a Relic...
...visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School this past year. In 2001, she was convicted and imprisoned in Iran for "acting against national security" after calling for constitutional reforms and secularization. Her husband, now in his 70s, is currently living under a loose form of house arrest in Tehran...
...some exceptions, like the laysan albatross. Last year, researchers studying a Hawaiian colony of albatrosses found that nearly a third of all the couples involved two females who courted and then shared parenting responsibilities. (Albatrosses don't have U-Hauls, so no lesbian jokes, please.) Male chinstrap penguins also form long-term relationships, at least in captivity. And some male bighorn sheep will mount females only after the females adopt male-like behaviors. (Watch a gay marriage wedding video...
France isn't the first nation to consider a burqa ban. In 2006, Dutch officials caused a storm of protest from its Muslim populace by proposing a burqa interdiction. A law imposing a ban may soon be passed. France is not that far yet. The parliamentary motion to form an investigating committee must be approved before that body can be formed. If it is, it must study the burqa and reasons why those women who wear it do so, and consider recommendations whether to ban it. Drafting and voting legislation to that end would take months. Before then, public debate...