Word: robin
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...decide to do this? I've always sailed. Football season had come to an end, and I was looking for something else to do. I had just read Robin Lee Graham's Dove, which is about a 16-year-old guy who set out to sail around the world in 1965. It's an amazing adventure story, and that kind of gave me a desire to get out there...
...Swiss tennis star Roger Federer, 27, earned his first French Open title on June 7. A straight-sets victory over Sweden's Robin Soderling made Federer the sixth man in history to win all four Grand Slam tournaments...
...President of the United States is supposed to lead the free world, not follow it," South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday. So why has Europe, so often cast as the more timid side of the transatlantic partnership, responded more vigorously this time? The answer, according to Robin Niblett, director of the London-based international-relations think tank Chatham House, lies in the low-rumbling crisis in the background of the disputed election: Iran's nuclear program. (See five reasons to suspect Iran's election results...
...Robin Dunn Marcos, IRC executive director in Phoenix, pointed to stark employment data among refugees from all countries served by her office. In the first three months of the 2008 budget year, her agency found jobs for 100 refugees. In the same period this year, only 28 found work. In 2007, the agency considered 80% of the refugees settled by her office to be self-sufficient. This year, so far, it's just 10%. At the same time, the annual number of Iraqi refugees is growing. Just 202 were admitted in 2006; this year could see an influx...
...example, he has repeatedly claimed that Iran's inflation rate is 15%, whereas the country's Central Bank puts it at 25%. He insists, against the evidence, that unemployment and the country's disparity in wealth are both on the decline, and he casts himself as an Iranian Robin Hood, depicted on banners as bowing to poor old farmers and deprived children. And in a neat trick for an incumbent, he styles himself as an insurgent outsider: "For four years, power has been out of their hands," says one Ahmadinejad campaign ad. "If we stay for another four years...