Word: painting
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...small fire broke out in the Dana-Palmer House across from the Barker Center last night, after a heat gun used to remove paint ignited wood in the roof...
...what would it look like? Interviews with dozens of experts and government officials in Washington, Tehran and elsewhere in the Middle East paint a sobering picture: military action against Iran's nuclear facilities would have a decent chance of succeeding, but at a staggering cost. And therein lies the excruciating calculus facing the U.S. and its allies: Is the cost of confronting Iran greater than the dangers of living with a nuclear Iran? And can anything short of war persuade Tehran's fundamentalist regime to give up its dangerous game...
...longer a country. It's unfortunate that this stark reality of life in Baghdad, and by extension the rest of Iraq, does not register with the Bush Administration. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, simply do not exist. The watercolors used by the Bush Administration to paint an encouraging picture of Iraq are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth, Canada Ghosh's depiction of Baghdad was a wonderful piece of work. Is it the same Iraq that our Administration paints such a rosy picture...
...Bush Administration prefers to paint the War on Terror in stark terms of good and evil, but the reality is not all terror suspects are considered equal. That much was clear on the same day that the nation solemnly recalled the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when a federal magistrate recommended freeing a man being held on immigration charges who is also awaiting retrial in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago that resulted in the death of all aboard, including the Cuban national fencing team...
...Appartement 217 was renovated by the architect Arnaud Montigny (who did Colette) to appear loftlike and informal. Everything is organic (apart from the furniture?"I couldn't find anything stylish," he says), ranging from the naturally pigmented paint on the walls to the mineralized water to the terry-cloth robes made from organic cotton. Nevertheless, Jaulin has avoided the Zen music trap, dismissing it as "not very Paris" and opting instead for a mix of rhythm and blues played, sotto voce, over the speakers. "The point of this place is to experience well-being, lightness and joy, and I want...