Word: ropes
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...launch my Sundance campaign, I decided to enlist the most influential people in the world: celebrities with things to promote. With its free food, velvet-rope access and photographers waiting outside, the MySpace Café became the obvious campaign headquarters, and within two days Billy Bob Thornton, Téa Leoni, Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Benjamin Bratt and NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman were all saying they wanted to see JSCUA more than any other short. Though, admittedly, they didn't seem to know about any other shorts, and I might have told MacLachlan I'd buy the $65 bottle of cabernet...
...motor or sail. According to Zaw Win, another Rohingya detainee interviewed by the Arakan Project, the Thais gave the refugees four bags of rice and two drums of water, a woefully insufficient supply for over 400 people with nowhere to go. Then they allegedly cut the rope between the barge and the navy ship and left...
...That attack was followed by several more. On Jan. 11, a man surfing near Fingal Head in northern New South Wales was bitten on the thigh. Jonathon Beard, 31, made it to shore and survived after his friends used the leg rope from his surfboard to stem the bleeding...
Ousted President Pervez Musharraf once described balancing such demands as "tightrope-walking." Now the rope has grown slender, and Zardari will have to tread it amid fierce winds. More than 7 in 10 Pakistanis oppose military cooperation with the U.S. For many, the fight has always been an American war. Zardari must change that perception, and one way to do that is to use the latest attack--whose victims were overwhelmingly Pakistani--to turn public opinion...
Gift-giving was so much easier when we were kids. Old Spice soap on a rope for Dad and something sparkly for Mom - whether or not they particularly liked these presents was secondary. It's the thought that counts, right...