Word: reigns
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...interest of national (or global) security is one without an easy answer and it is a question that should and will be debated. Perhaps some human rights will be suspended in tumultuous times. But if you choose to argue that the trauma Chile faced during Pinochet’s reign necessitated “some” repression, do so with a full understanding of what you are defending...
...live to sample their final product. "It's quite moving to work on something that is part of a national patrimony," says Rémy Martin cellarmaster Vincent Géré. Named in homage to the 17th century French King after a royal decanter from his reign was dug up more than two centuries later at the site of a nearby battle, Louis XIII was first produced in 1874 by Paul-Emile Rémy Martin, the founder's great-great grandson. Standing in a Domaine du Grollet cellar, dank with the heady aroma of the tier...
...pieces for the page; other times, we publish pieces that are submitted to us unsolicited. In any case, signed pieces do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board. In fact, we tend to give our writers, especially our columnists and editorial cartoonists, a substantial amount of free reign in choosing their topics; we value clarity and originality of an argument over the particular content of the argument itself...
...tiny room, a collective surge of emotion connecting today's Shi'ites with the events that marked their division from Sunnis and centuries of persecution, warfare and sectarianism. It is a powerful ritual of Shi'ite unity - one that the Sunni Taliban leadership attempted to curtail during their reign in Kabul...
...strangers like Mrs. Shoddy who hover beyond town fringes; and the reader's, for a character worthy of compassion and completion. Despite seemingly absurdist and sardonic elements, the novel is simpler and less fanciful than Hall's previous ones. It is set in 1983, when in N.S.W. there did reign a Department of, and Master in, Lunacy. And even today one doesn't have to travel far to find larger-than-life Country Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These, of course, are the dark characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity...