Word: rowes
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...just really, really good at it. I can do 1,000-plus hula hoops in a row. I'm not kidding. I can count them. I have hula-hooped on Rocketboom before. Maybe I should update my résumé soon, though, and take that...
...being detained on the grounds of the Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, Jahanbegloo was imprisoned at the notorious Evin prison, the same prison that Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested for allegedly photographing in 2003. Kazemi died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...
...match fixing in the Italian Serie A soccer league looks set to bring the enforced relegation of four leading clubs. A few hundred kilometers to the north, several much-fancied entrants in this year's Tour de France find themselves kicking their heels on the roadside after a doping row. Meanwhile the sport of kings - the polite name for British horse [an error occurred while processing this directive] racing - has been cast into turmoil by an alleged betting fraud and the arrest of Kieren Fallon, one of its most accomplished jockeys. And to what prosecutors and investigating committees maintain...
...there's one thing more unsettling than a bunch of contestants dragging cameras to skid row as they vie for a book deal and TV pilot, it's seeing their responses critiqued as if they were singing a Christina Aguilera song ("You call that a speech?"). Messengers, to be fair, is self-conscious about that: in one scene, a homeless woman lectures TLC's cameras, "This ain't no damn zoo. These are human beings." She's right. This is possibly the best-intentioned--and creepiest--TV show you will see this year...
...Roderic Lyne, a former British ambassador to Moscow, "the boom doesn't stem from oil alone. Genuine entrepreneurs have built good businesses in telecom, information technology, retail, brewing, food processing and consumer credit." A government that was broke under President Boris Yeltsin has had six budget surpluses in a row, just agreed to speed repayment of its foreign debt, and has socked away over $70 billion in a rainy-day fund. More than 6 million Russians a year now take foreign holidays. There are more than 100,000 U.S.-dollar millionaires. It's also true, as Lyne argues, that Russians...