Word: hoy
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...cartel boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria seems to have forsaken bombs and gun battles in the streets, which have killed more than 1,000 people in the past 15 months, and opted instead for high-profile kidnappings and negotiations. Since August, Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked out. In the past year authorities have gunned down several Escobar associates, and the drug lord has twice narrowly escaped capture...
...book, By Way of Deception, was co-written by Victor Ostrovsky, 40, who holds dual Canadian and Israeli citizenship and became a Mossad agent in the 1980s, and Claire Hoy, 50, a Canadian journalist. The Canadian-born Ostrovsky, who grew up in Israel and now works in Ottawa as an artist, sold the manuscript to Toronto's Stoddart Publishing, which planned to release the book Oct. 4. But two weeks ago, claiming the book contained information that "could have dire consequences for many people," Israeli officials won a temporary injunction in Canada against release of the book's contents. Ostrovsky...
...Espectador has by far been one of the major victims," said Luis A. Moreno, a current Nieman Fellow and director of "TV Hoy," a Bogota news program. "They were very, very brave from way back...
Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with...