Word: heiress
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...burnish its image. The situation is ripe for satire, and Tan pours it over her tour bus of fools: the television dog-show host who thinks diplomacy is a lot like pooch training, the academic couple who can't stop intellectually one-upping each other, the dangerously do-gooding heiress. Saving Fish from Drowning (the title comes from a Buddhist fisherman's rationalization of his craft) ends without clear winners. And Tan neatly frames the dilemma: To help the oppressed, do you use a carrot or a cudgel...
...superiors at first balked, she remains on the force. In today's Spain she has felt free enough to talk publicly about her switch. The problem is that the 1978 constitution hasn't been able to keep up with the hectic pace of social change. While rewording the heir-heiress glitch will be simple enough, what did the constitutional fathers (no mothers, obviously) have in mind when they guaranteed the right of men and women to marry? What did they mean by "nation"? Today, Spain's consuming debate is not about the economy, terrorism, immigration - it's semantics, stupid...
PARIS HILTON AND TINKERBELL Book: The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries (by author D. Resin) Breeds: Improbably famous blond and teacup Chihuahua Dogma: Life in a heiress's armpit isn't as glamorous as it looks...
...just start thinking about different crimes that I've seen in the news, or that I know about from my childhood. This was a few years before me, but there was a woman named Barbara Jane Mackle, who was an heiress who was kidnapped and buried alive in Duluth, Georgia, which is about 40 minutes from where I grew up. The kidnappers were ransoming her. The FBI finally found this woman, but she was trapped for two or three days, buried alive with a pipe. That's something that's always terrified me, just the idea of being buried alive...
...only makes sense that PARIS HILTON-a hotel heiress, a party princess and a being whose very life force appears to come from flashbulbs-would get engaged to ... well, herself. Fiance PARIS LATSIS is a pretty, jet-setting heir. Bingo. Hilton's mom says she's never seen her daughter happier. Here's a cheat sheet on how to tell the two Parises apart...