Word: protectorates
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when he was sent by Bush's dad to deliver the car keys. Rove sounds as though he had just encountered the reincarnation of James Dean, leather jacket and all. "He was cool," says Rove, who can still come across as the nerd in high school with the pocket protector and briefcase. Where Bush was the carefree product of a loving family, with a Yale degree and money to burn, Rove was the opposite. His father, an oil company geologist, moved the family constantly. Rove's parents divorced, and his mother eventually killed herself. Rove attended three different universities before...
...both Jonathan and me that they were thoughtful, intelligent and welcoming people. Pentecostal believers reject notions of strict tradition and earthly spiritual authority and rely on direct spiritual revelation from God, who they believe speaks daily through both leaders and laity. They look to Jesus as their friend, protector and liberator from evil forces, sickness and slavery to sexual or alcoholic addiction...
...director who had used a double for a nude scene in her film Ek Chhoti Si Love Story. Last month, she lost the case. So she sought help from another powerful gang in Bombay: the Hindu chauvinist Shiv Sena political party. Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray considers himself the protector of Hindu culture, even as his boys, like the bhais, win adherents by force. When Love Story was released, Shiv Sena activists attacked the theaters, ripped up billboards and threatened owners to stop screenings of the film. In Bombay, the Mob isn't the only mob in town...
...possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned kids - Joseph (Vincent Rottiers) and his autistic sister Chloé (Adèle Haenell) - searching for their home. Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion and myopia true love entails. Harrowing and delicate, this French film transcends case history to become a work of seamless art and broken heart. And for a retreat into luminous, ageless film craft, queue...
...Preparing For The Worst Russia began offering foreign companies insurance against corrupt judges, officials and politicians. The initiative is intended to boost foreign investment, which fell 25% this year. But after last week's kidnapping of Lukoil vice president Sergei Kukura, investors may not be quite convinced. Pocket Protector Levi Strauss, the jeans group, may soon be a dirty word in the telecom industry - and not just because those button flies are so tricky. Levi's is unveiling a new line of trousers with "antiradiation" mobile-phone pockets, even though research has shown no definitive radiation risk to phone users...