Word: heating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House had been considering a plan for homeland security for months, but Bush aides admit that he gave the 11-min. speech ahead of schedule. "We wanted to strike while the iron was hot," says an aide. But in truth, the heat was on Bush. For the first time since the war began, the White House was struggling to remain in control of the agenda. Bush went before the cameras only hours after the televised congressional testimony of FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis agent who ripped the bureau's pre-9/11 bunglings in a letter...
...front of the camera instead of behind it? "I'm just making movies I like and doing favors for friends," he explains, not too convincingly. "I'm in no rush," he continues. "So far, I've directed a film after every major stage in my life." In the Heat of the Sun (1994) capped off the wide-eyed sexual exuberance of his 20s, and Devils followed a passion for modern Chinese history he developed in his early 30s. "I have no plans," he insists...
...expropriating white-owned farms. In Zimbabwe the opposition Movement for Democratic Change accused Mugabe of being a "world-class hypocrite." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi blocked an attempt by Mugabe to hold talks with Italian leaders. NIGERIA Hot Sahel More than 60 people died as a result of a heat wave in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, and the actual death toll could be even higher because many families in remote areas fail to register their dead before burying them within the 24-hour period customary for Muslims. Seasonal rains have failed for two months, and temperatures above 50? have...
...other bodies have been burning since dawn. The funeral pyres, once piled more than a meter high, are now nothing but smoldering heaps of ash and fragmented bone. A blackened skull is all that remains of one; on the other a heat-shriveled thigh juts out, still attached to a cracked pelvis bone. Curiously, there is no odor of burnt flesh or hair. The bodies, in preparation for burning, have been dipped in the Ganges. "The holy river purifies all beings," says Papu, spitting betel juice from between blackened teeth. "That is why there is no odor...
ROCK-SOLID SUTRA Nobody knows why the ruling 10th century Chandela clan picked this desolate spot on a heat-seared plain 300 kilometers southwest of Varanasi as the site for its prodigious spree of temple building?nearly 100 in as many years. But it's a good thing the Moguls, who were lopping off the heads of idolatrous sculptures in their rampage across northern India, never found them. They would have been apoplectic with rage at the temples' stone figures communing in sexual positions that would make a Pattaya prostitute blush...