Word: reigns
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...Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mick Jagger and Otto von Bismarck have in common? They've all dined at Borchardt's, a Berlin classic situated between Gendarmenmarkt and the Brandenburg Gate. Opened in October 1853, the fashionable restaurant was nearly destroyed in World War II, then left to decay during the reign of East Germany's communist government. But under new management, Borchardt's gained a new lease on life after the Wall fell, and it's now a magnet for Berlin's political and social ?lite...
...freedom reign!" GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a note after being informed that sovereign power in Iraq had been officially passed to the Iraqis...
DIED. CLAYTON KIRKPATRICK, 89, pioneering editor of the Chicago Tribune; in Glen Ellyn, Ill. When he took over the paper in 1969, Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial, "No political party should take the Tribune for granted." Under his 10-year reign, the Tribune dropped its partisan Republican stance and became an objective, nationally respected publication...
More than a year--but no WMDs--later, those words have returned to slam-dunk Tenet. It doesn't help that the controversies over Iraq and 9/11 follow on intelligence failures stretching back almost to the beginning of Tenet's reign. In his seven years as director of Central Intelligence--only the legendary Allen Dulles served longer--Tenet revived morale at an agency devastated by post--cold war budget cuts and a sharp drop in recruitment. But he also presided over blunders that included the agency's failure to foresee in 1998 that India would test an atomic device...
...follower of Crimson tennis, for Fish has produced consistently impressive results. Entering this, his 28th season, he had accumulated an overall record of 437-185 and an astounding 209-23 in Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA)/Ivy play. In only two years under Fish’s reign has the Crimson lost more than two EITA/Ivy contests, and the squad has gone undefeated in the conference 14 times...