Word: lair
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...Highgrove. Though two years under age, he drank at a local pub, often achieving the state British papers call "tired and emotional." This was nothing new for Harry, who has been drinking in public since he was 12. He and his friends would continue in the soundproof basement lair maintained for the princes at Highgrove called Club H, which had a well-stocked bar. At the pub, at Highgrove and at private parties, Harry also smoked pot with his buddies. Staff eventually told Prince Charles about the aroma from the basement; he held a "calm and serious" talk with...
Moderate Muslim leaders scoff at Butt as a self-publicist. But Zaki Badawi, principal of London's Muslim College, warns that "the idea that you can cut off the head of al-Qaeda and the body will wither is not going to happen." Ranstorp agrees. Though al-Qaeda's lair in Afghanistan may have been smashed, he says, "The snake has already laid a thousand eggs, which are hatching and slipping off in all directions." Foremost among them Britain...
...losing, and we don't want the world's most famous martyr-in-waiting to win. Given the success so far of the military campaign in Afghanistan, it seems highly likely that bin Laden will soon be dead. He may be killed by U.S. forces who find his lair, or he may meet his death in the rubble of a bomb blast. Perhaps his end will come at the hands of those closest to him; bin Laden's bodyguards are said to have sworn to kill their leader rather than let him be captured. The precise form of bin Laden...
After trekking up four flights of stairs, many a weary visitor has come to appreciate the relaxing oasis that is Cabot I-41. Entrance into Michael J. Simonetti’s ’02 lair is granted only after removing one’s shoes, but the risk of exposing holey socks is well worth taking. Plush velvet pillows and mattresses swathed in luxurious fabrics beg to be sat/lied/leaned upon. Dimmed lights and jazz music pleasantly ease the senses as Simmonetti, unconcerned with the time of the visit, offers his guests champagne and other cocktails from his personal...
...makeshift antiterrorist war room he has opened in his Washington headquarters. Only a tiny fraction of the food coming into the U.S. undergoes inspection, officials note. One concern: imported gum arabic plants, the source of additives for many foodstuffs. These come largely from Sudan, once bin Laden's lair, via Canada, and because of the North American Free Trade Agreement may enter the U.S. uninspected. "Am I satisfied with the inspections we're doing?" Thompson asked rhetorically. "No, I am more fearful about this than anything else...