Word: marlies
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...from an Iranian prison, where she said she was detained after buying a bottle of wine, an offense that normally warrants a fine or a few days in jail. For nearly a month, her parents opted not to publicize the news before going to the media on Mar. 1. The next day, Iran's judiciary announced that she was being held for working without proper press credentials...
...staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role, to play there." - Dismissing speculation in March 2009 that he was about to switch parties, adding, "I'm afraid we're becoming a one-party system" (The Hill, Mar...
...Oreal. And it's the Clean Gel. It's the Total Control Clean Gel, because they've got seven or eight products, and the other ones don't work." - on what hair product he uses, Ryan Seacrest Live, Mar. 17, 2009 Quotes About...
...last Summit of the Americas, in 2005. Thanks to rising oil prices, the Venezuelan President, who controls the hemisphere's largest crude reserves, suddenly had the petro-wherewithal to spread his gospel of a more socialist Latin America free of Washington's imperialist interference. At that summit, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Chávez led large and raucous demonstrations against President George W. Bush and U.S. plans for a hemispheric free-trade pact, which effectively died at the gathering...
...contrast to the summit in Mar del Plata, Chávez isn't expected to hold the regional reins in Port of Spain or breathe the same anti-U.S. fire. More moderate leftists like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are regarded as Latin America's standard bearers today. Even if the global economic crisis has borne out Chávez's condemnation of capitalism, it has also sent oil prices plummeting - and his populist largesse along with them. At the same time, some supporters worry that as Chávez accumulates more power at home...