Word: ironed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Which brings me to my next point—the movie “Dragon Wars” sucks. Yeah, dragons rule. Yeah, they have awesome powers and are so powerful that they could destroy everybody and rule with an iron first and vanquish the entire planet with their kick-assness...
...first woman to hijack an airplane. Five venues, including the Harvard Film Archive and the Kendall Square Cinema, are featuring over 40 films and shorts, many of which have never been shown in the U.S. Dealing with a variety of topics ranging from the so-called “Iron Wall” to driving a cab in Los Angeles, the festival runs for nine days has surprised even its organizers with its popularity. According to Nitin Sawhney, a member of the festival’s organizing committee, one of the greatest difficulties faced was convincing...
...Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, if one wants to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule, killing dozens, according to initial U.N. estimates. But the question remains: Who exactly are the brutal generals behind one of the world's most isolated regimes...
...last week's crackdown. Rumors that Than Shwe, who has been ill for years, has picked junta No. 3 Shwe Mann - a purported economic pragmatist - as his favored successor have also raised hopes. But a change of guard may not mean much. The Burmese military has ruled with an iron grip for 45 years, and predicting its demise - or even nascent reform within its ranks - is a dangerous bet. Burma's generals may be faceless, but they have outlasted most of the world's better-known dictators...
...Anniversary of Hope On every anniversary of Sept. 11, I think of how much trust was lost among so many Americans and Muslims [Sept. 17]. Yet not long after that tragic day, one seemingly delicate American woman with an iron will and amazing intellect trusted my family and me with her most precious treasures for a week: she left her two teenage daughters with us in Montreal when she went to a conference in the U.S. In that moment of difficulty, she trusted a bearded Muslim colleague at her university and his veiled wife. God knows I would have given...