Word: odd
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...Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes of traffic and lacking a big budget for security, are more exposed. And in the face of massive onslaughts like those against Estonia, even government networks can be brought down...
...They're everywhere, these not-so-merry miscreants - in Singapore, in Antarctica, on a desert island, in a secret pirate cove, riding mid-ocean waterfalls (very odd, that bit), exchanging broadsides while being whirled about in a maelstrom. It is very exhausting, and it makes no sense whatsoever. From time to time the action stops dead in order for the actors to sneer and bellow at one another-lots of traditional "Avast me hearties" dialogue, which tends to remind us that Errol Flynn and his hammy crews used to do this sort of thing with more brio and fewer special...
...inside a circle of spectators, the dervishes spin in frenzied circles, sometimes hopping on one foot or leaping across the dusty ground, their robes flaring wildly around them. Robed men circulate among the spectators - other robed men, women wearing the sensuous, cascading traditional dresses called thopes, and the odd group of Westerners with cameras - offering cones of burning incense for people to fan the aromatic smoke toward their faces...
...Justice Foundation, established by Marina Litvinenko, family friend Alex Goldfarb and the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky, who supplied $1 million in start-up funds. The foundation aims to keep up the pressure for Litvinenko's killers to be brought to justice and to help seek compensation for the 200-odd people who came into contact with the polonium 210 . "We have borne considerable financial loss due to medical testing, which I am still undergoing," said Lugovoi. "Since Mr. Berezovsky has decided to create this fund to help polonium victims, I think we are direct victims and should...
...Deputy Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke. Though Kouchner's liberal politics won't thrill the current Administration, the pragmatism and general Atlanticist view he shares with Sarkozy should help improve relations with the U.S. While neither man is the rabid pro-American often depicted, France's new political odd couple do share a similar diplomatic style likely to thaw the recent trans-Atlantic freeze...