Word: mansion
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...appearance in the governor's mansion in Kandahar under a pink sheet, a wound on his head and his naked torso bloodied by two injuries, certainly dealt a psychological blow to the Taliban, for whom Dadullah has emerged as a powerful propaganda rallying point. His persona was used to recruit new fighters by the Taliban, with leaflets distributed only last week in Zabul province urging former mujahedin who had fought the Soviets in the 1980s to rally behind him. After losing a leg as a young mujaheed in the anti-Soviet jihad, Dadullah rose through the ranks of the Taliban...
...says 90% of her 185 former students have found jobs in the beauty business. On average, she estimates, they have raised their family incomes by 400%. And the school? "We just reopened," she says. "A new class started two days ago." Rodriguez now holds lessons in a rented mansion, using proceeds from her adjacent spa, coffeehouse and guesthouse. Though women still apply in the hundreds, this class has only 10. "There's no funding," she says. "You can get $1 million for a road easier than $10,000 for training. But this is one of the few industries where women...
...trunks; his corner men wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Mayweather Loves Mexico." Meanwhile De La Hoya, the "Golden Boy" the superstar who grew up in impoverished East Los Angeles and now lives with his pop-star wife and their toddler son in a 12-room mansion on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, burnished his squeaky image of dedicated family man, budding business mogul (his Golden Boy Promotions co-promoted the bout) and sweet science philosopher: "When you have a good soul it makes you a better fighter." Thirty-year-old Mayweather, younger and quicker...
...alleyways at night and inhale the smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant's mansion, now subdivided to house a dozen families. Yet I know this Shanghai-my Shanghai, Girard's Shanghai-is vanishing. All that will be left are these phantom images, a visual elegy to a city that is lost...
...What kind of cost-cutting measures would you undertake in the White House? For example, you decided to live in manufactured housing on the grounds of the Governor's mansion during renovations. -J.A. Smith, Greensboro, N.C. I wouldn't hesitate to bring in a manufactured home on the grounds of the White House because I thought it was quite comfortable living. [Laughs.] The greatest level of cost savings, though, would be realized by putting a new focus on preventive health...