Word: silvering
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...brief but grateful address by team owner Bob Kraft. “Two years ago, I told all of you we wouldn’t be satisfied until we brought another championship to New England, and here it is!” he said, heaving the handcrafted sterling silver Tiffany & Co. trophy into the chilled...
...while originality abounded at the Dior show with 1950s-style gold gowns and Nefertiti headdresses piled high with crystals, pearls and gold-plated glamour, the stylists were thrilled by the sight of model Liya Kebede in a slick silver dress at Chanel (for Nicole, perhaps?). And they scribbled furiously as a Stepford-style Donatella look-alike in crystal-encrusted satin came down the catwalk at Versace (undoubtedly...
...ironic silver lining in the current wave of violence is that it offers persuasive evidence in support of Washington's argument that elections can't be held before its July 1 deadline for handing power to an Iraqi provisional government. The leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority have rejected the U.S. plan to select such a government at regional caucuses controlled by its handpicked Iraqi Governing Council. Instead, the country's most powerful spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, has demanded democratic elections, and rather than put itself at odds with a pro-democracy movement among Iraq's majority community...
...forgiven, upon your arrival at the Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj...
...subway for the same trip is hardly a bargain. And the MBTA’s disregard for low-income users goes far beyond its fares. On the Orange Line, which serves many low-income neighborhoods, subways have been known to run once every half-hour. The Silver Line has turned out to be an ersatz subway route covered mostly by bus service. But downtown, part of the revenues generated by the higher fares will be spent on the construction of a new “Superstation” at the Fleet Center. The seeming message—that the MBTA...