Word: roxana
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...surprising gesture of white knighthood, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to the aid of Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist detained in a Tehran prison on spying charges. Known more for being a regular sparring partner with the United States, Ahmadinejad made a rare intervention into Saberi's case on Sunday by declaring that she should have the legal right to defend herself...
...asked others, and they said, "There's no detention for that." So that's kind of an excuse.' REZA SABERI, father of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was reportedly arrested in Tehran for buying a bottle of wine and was last heard from...
...emphasis. “Wide—and smooth—and long.”* * * * *Frederick had spent the last week reading the work of a famous Russian mystic. He would sit in the library, sunk deep in an armchair, with a book open on his lap. Roxana hovered by his chair or knelt at his feet. Frederick liked absently to stroke her golden hair, and sometimes when the text was especially gripping he would prop his elbow on her convenient, shelf-like bosom.As the Russian mystic described the life of a peasant in the fields, Frederick lost himself...
...Still, in the end, it's the words that count. Gina thought the readings were wonderful, of course, but so did Roxana, 17, her elder sister, who likes to point out that when it comes to Potter "I'm not obsessive." Both of them loved Irving - Roxana had seen the movie of The Cider House Rules but not read the book - and I hope will try out his work soon. All in all, quite a night; when the Rockettes next need a night off, maybe Radio City should give Jonathan Safran Foer and Zadie Smith a call...
...Still, Mistry isn't at peace with his critics or with his beleaguered Bombay. "This nation specializes in turning honest people into crooks," Roxana's husband, Yezad, complains. There's a muted optimism at the novel's end. "Aren't you happy?" Roxana asks her youngest son. "Yes," he answers. "I'm happy." Family matters can be difficult, and Mistry certainly doesn't shy away from showing, in all their roughness, the real truths about them?but here, at least, things don't have to end in heartbreak...