Word: reckoner
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...called the Ali 3 W.C. (for three world championships). The $25,000-to-$30,000 item will be turned out in South Boston, Va., starting next year, and the first batch will be marketed in the Middle East, where the Muslim convert's name is one to reckon--and advertise--with. The major backer of the more-than-$10 million project is Saudi Billionaire Sheik Mohammad Al Fassi (he of the former pea-green Beverly Hills mansion with the garishly painted nude statues). So in the Arab world, the car will be known as the Fassi Ali. Whatever its name...
...reaching online services stay off the hook? The Beeb quietly dumped its more commercial sites last year, and the British government's restructuring plan for the BBC, published last week, waxed lyrical on "transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC Online seems to fit in with where it's going anyway." Still, you can bet the BBC will be glued to Kroes' next show. Called To Serve What price politics? If you're Thierry Breton, the answer is about €3.5 million. That's the amount Breton, 50, left on the table...
...answers passes his days in Islamabad, his once peripatetic lifestyle now confined to the interior of his villa. A close friend says Khan's health is poor, and he is given to bouts of depression. Although the man may fade into obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid Siamdoust/ Tehran
...planning to build a new school for teenage defectors. It may also cut settlement payments to refugees who do not take advantage of job-training programs or refuse low-paying jobs. But as the government scrambles to keep up with the swelling tide of defectors, it will have to reckon with the reaction of its neighbor to the North. Last week's arrivals were kept from the media and whisked off for debriefing by security officials, but not before Pyongyang accused Seoul of "premeditated kidnapping...
...date in Could Well Be In is portrayed with a tenderness that softens the lack of couth: "I saw this thing on ITV the other week/ It said if she plays with her hair then she's probably keen/ She's playing with her hair well regularly, so I reckon I could well be in." To some that might seem like adolescent blather, but like Eminem in the U.S., Skinner draws the listener into the dark, angry, occasionally almost sweet thoughts of a British lad. And thanks to the way he tells it, that's a place people all around...