Word: homelands
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...former Thai premier has a fondness for luxury shopping and golf - and has indulged both diversions fully since he was forced from office two years ago. (In a sign that Thaksin may be resigned to a longer exile, he gave up one of his last official connections to his homeland on Tuesday, that of President of the Professional Golfers Association of Thailand.) Loss of pride aside, Thaksin can at least take heart in the august company of others who have been barred from entering Britain. Earlier this year, American domestic diva Martha Stewart was denied a visa because...
...reading of “The Prophet” today as worthwhile as when it first hit the scene.The book tells the story of a wanderer named Almustafa who has spent 12 years in a foreign land observing its people, and is about to set sail back to his homeland. In 27 short verse-essays, the prophet guides the people in their way of life, spanning topics from the mundane—“Eating and Drinking,” “Houses,” “Law”—to the profound?...
...very least, experts and Democratic Senate staffers say, Lieberman is likely to lose his current role in the Homeland Security and Oversight Committee. "Reid will be under pressure to strip Lieberman's chairmanship from him," says Stephen Wayne, a political-science professor at Georgetown University. "If he votes to organize with the Dems, they will allow him to choose a committee assignment, but not chair...
...There’s nothing wrong with appealing to the base of the Republican Party,” says Weatherl, who lists pro-life policies, homeland security, and traditional family values as the keystones of the Republican platform. “I don’t think that that appeal to middle America is necessarily something that contrasts with intellectual debates. You can argue those issues that are important to the base in an intellectual...
...would! Gladly. Where do I sign? After months of reviewing Windows desktops and laptops, I put the new $1,600 MacBook through its paces--and it was like returning from a backward country where nothing works only to find your homeland is even better than you remembered...