Word: guardians
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...clerical regime, raised eyebrows this week when he overrode his country's electoral system to restore the candidacy of two reformers in the June 17 presidential election. "It is appropriate that all individuals in the country be given the choice from various political tendencies," the Ayatollah scolded, prompting the Guardian Council to hastily reinstate former education minister Mostafa Moein and vice president for sport, Mohsen Mehralizadeh as candidates...
...within a grid, Su Doku has Britons hooked. Since its debut in the Times last November, almost every major paper in the country, desperate not to miss any chance to build circulation, has acquired a version. Tabloid variants come with celebrity endorsements and last week, after the Guardian launched its puzzle, the Times fought back with the first mobile-phone version: download 10 puzzles for $8.30. The newspaper fight began with Wayne Gould, who sold the concept to the Times last fall after almost being turned away at the door. "Even in my fantasy sequences, I didn't anticipate...
...We’re talking a long, long time in the future to be able to do this but it’s not impossible,” Neil Johnson, a physicist at Oxford University, told The Guardian last week. “It would be very hard to send through something that weighed anything, like machines and people, but you could conceivably send messages through light and radio waves...
Harvard’s policy does make an exception for students who are traveling to countries with a parent or guardian...
...president of the Umbria region. However, Burri's wife did not share her husband's affection for Città di Castello. After the artist's death, she tried to gain control of all of Burri's works. But in 1998, Italian courts ruled in favor of Albizzini as the guardian of Burri's art. Right now, the only record of the missing work is a photo-catalogue. In addition to the art, the collection contained intimate pieces Burri gave to his wife. "Some of them were little gifts he used to give his wife on Christmas or birthdays with little...