Word: icing
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...Baccarat Gallery-Museum (11, Place des Etats-Unis) displays all sorts of glittering goodies, such as Czar Nicholas II's custom-ordered giant candelabra, crystal thrones created for India's maharajas and dessert plates made for Coco Chanel, complete with etchings of delicate scissors. Skaters can cut the ice with the locals at the Hotel de Ville (blades rent for 5 euros...
...With what we're doing in Guant?namo, we're on thin ice to push on this." U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, quoted in a Human Rights Watch report issued last week; the document claims that the U.S. is toning down demands that Malaysia end its practice of holding terror suspects without trial...
...said that they now saw the E.U.-inspired reforms as a repeat of the widely reviled 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which led to the Ottoman Empire being dismantled by foreign powers. "Turks are fed up," says Haluk Cetin, a 30-year-old nationalist activist and manufacturer of ice-cream-making equipment. "Rising terrorism, economic hardship and now all this pressure from the E.U. Turks are patient people, but once they reach boiling point, anything could happen." Erdogan understands that his government is at risk from nationalists, but he also has his own political constituents to cater to, many...
...from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...going to die tonight and stand before God, having done a bunch of ice." ASHLEY SMITH, Atlanta woman hailed in March for persuading the man who held her hostage--after killing a judge and three others--to surrender by reading aloud from the spiritual best seller The Purpose-Driven Life, in a new memoir revealing that she also gave him some crystal methamphetamine but refused to do drugs with...