Word: heeds
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...particularly liked the Coen Brothers piece about an American tourist (Steve Buscemi), waiting for a Metro train, who does not heed his guidebook's advice (don't make eye contact with strangers) with comic-violent results, Wes Craven's work about a pair of bickering British tourists visiting Oscar Wilde's grave site in the Père-Lachaise cemetery with romantically restorative results, and Tom Twyker's take on a faltering love affair between a pair of young people, one of whom is blind, yet is also a brave and wily navigator of the sighted world. There's even...
...whoever killed Ghandour and Qabalan paid no heed to the respected Hizballah's leader's entreaties...
...from both sides of the divide have condemned the killings and called for calm. Jumblatt made a televised statement, saying that the murders should not be politicized and that solving the crime must be left to the state. Certainly, at the funeral for the two victims, mourners vowed to heed their leaders' calls. But the true sentiment of the crowd was revealed as the coffins were carried on a sea of upturned palms from the mosque to the adjacent cemetery. "Don't worry, Ziad, your blood will not be spilled in vain," they chanted, and "There...
...Heed the commanders on the ground, Bush told lawmakers, but that plea was chilled by the testimony in another hearing room. The war's icons spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain...
...Council. In the end, though, there is a "decider" - the supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Khamenei wields his authority carefully, and in a consultative manner, seeking to maintain the unity of the competing factions of Iran's political class. So, while he is said to pay greater heed to the counsel of more pragmatic advisers such as Larijani and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Supreme Leader is careful to accommodate the popularly elected President Ahmadinejad. For example, while the recent compromise with Britain over the 15 Naval personnel captured at sea may have been brokered in substantial part...