Word: headful
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...Here, in a nutshell, is the source of the current disagreement. Back in 2005, Greenberg was the head of both AIG and Starr International, a private insurance company whose main asset was nearly 300 million shares of AIG. For years, Starr had used that stock to dole out retention bonuses to AIG executives. When AIG booted Greenberg, he seized control of Starr and its AIG shares. Greenberg says Starr is a separate company that was set up to use its shares to benefit a charitable trust, and insists it can do what it wants with the shares. AIG says Starr...
...surgeon working in the meat industry, I have seen halal slaughter: it is barbaric. Banks adopting sharia: are we talking about that same sharia that favors stonings and beheadings as legitimate punishments? I feel sorry for poor Khalfan who was shocked by the sight of women not covered from head to toe and poor Norini who was "so scared" of coming into contact with nonhalal products. This is what happens when the Middle Ages come to the 21st century, when superstition is taken seriously and made respectable. Pedro Pinheiro de Almeida, ATHLONE, IRELAND...
...downturn as a chance to press home its dominance by expanding and squeezing out stumbling rivals. Fielmann, which also operates in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Poland, plans to open 150 new stores in Germany alone, as many as 30 of them this year. Georg Alexander Zeiss, Fielmann's head of finance, says that he is also considering acquisitions of smaller, weaker competitors. "We are looking at every serious opportunity," Zeiss says...
...four women chatting at an outdoor restaurant in an old cobblestone courtyard would draw little notice in Tehran, perhaps, or Beirut or Amman. But with their heads wrapped in tight scarves, concealing every strand of hair, they stand out against the secular traditions of modern Sarajevo. Friends since childhood, the four women, all 23, laugh when asked how their mothers reacted after they became intensely religious and began wearing head scarves. "It was very strange for them," says Saudina Husic, a student of Arabic and Persian, her legs covered by a pea-green robe that matches her veil. "But they...
...core. "Every minute you wonder what will happen after you die," she says. "You cannot postpone those questions until old age." After years of dabbling in Buddhism and Judaism, and a phase as a punk rocker with blue hair, four years ago Begic adopted the Islamic head scarf and long dress and became deeply religious. She says the decision "caused an earthquake" among her family and friends, who are still uncomfortable with her devotion...