Word: joshed
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...international strait through which all ships have the right to travel, whether Canadians want them there or not. That line has always rankled Canadians but never more so than now that the ice is disappearing. "I'll jump up and down and say it - the passage is Canadian," says Josh Hunter, Resolute's senior administrative officer. "If the Americans try to come through unwanted, we'll be out there on our snowmobiles blocking their passage...
CONTEXT Longer hemlines are showing up in fashion designs for spring 2008, indicating that U.S. economic woes could worsen. Nicole Miller and Josh Goot had hemlines at the knee, and Generra and Miss Sixty's hems were mostly midthigh. The fashion houses could just be foreshadowing what will come next year: by 2008, 2 million people could foreclose on their homes as a result of the subprime-mortgage crisis...
...Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C., fills the ironic-teen-soap void that's been open since, well, The O.C. was canceled. Manhattan prep schooler Serena (Blake Lively) returns from a mysterious exile and shakes up Upper East Side society. Packing a sharp designer shiv, this clever saga of haves vs. have-mores proves the East Coast can be as enjoyably sudsy as the West...
...surprise trip was planned over a six week period by a small group at the White House, convened by chief of staff Josh Bolten and including Hadley, vice president Dick Cheney and a handful of other top aides. Hadley said that when the President was approached about the idea of a trip to Anbar province he leapt...
...That timing fit with Josh Bolten's deadline for resignations: Bush's chief of staff has asked anyone in the Administration who is planning to leave before the end of Bush's presidency to let him know before Labor Day this year. And the departure also comes conveniently at the tail end of the August doldrums, with Washington still on summer recess and much of the country on vacation. Better to make the move now, the White House figured, than wait for Congress to return and perhaps renew its campaign to oust Gonzales. "You're not going to make...