Word: slept
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...panic the people of New York. Senior FBI officials were not in the loop. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he was never told about the threat. In the end, the investigators found nothing and concluded that DRAGONFIRE's information was false. But few of them slept better. They had made a chilling realization: if terrorists did manage to smuggle a nuclear weapon into the city, there was almost nothing anyone could do about...
...country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which was in the forefront of the movement to destroy the mosque built, it said, where the revered Hindu god Rama was born. The Congress Prime Minister at the time, P.V. Narasimha Rao, in a modern variation of the Nero legend, slept while the mosque was being destroyed. Even his Cabinet colleagues were not allowed to disturb his sleep, according to numerous statements made by them (after he lost power). Rao rationalized his abdication of responsibility with Machiavellian rationale. The BJP was committing suicide, he argued. Why interfere...
...three boys in Menlo Park, Calif., whose husband used to travel frequently, says the three male nannies she hired have helped make up for her weaknesses. A favorite, Alan Schuchman, "would do art projects with them, but he'd also be more physical, which my boys loved. And they slept well because they were exhausted." Her son Alex, now 12, agrees that--no offense--female sitters just don't compare: "If you were trying to talk to a girl about computer games, she'd be like 'O.K., that's nice.' Alan...
...Oscar nominations and favorable reviews. It contorts to make the McDeeres’ relationship at least somewhat balanced. Mitch (Tom Cruise) confesses to Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn) about his Cayman Islands tryst. She achieves some measure of movie-style retribution by not telling her hubby whether or not she slept with his boss (Gene Hackman) while she stole files from him. Of course, she didn’t—equality has its limits and no woman will make a cuckold out of Tom Cruise...
...perfect 100-point score. Meanwhile, allegations that he had been pressured to commence the cheating games without informing the teams of several participating nations were immediately confirmed by the Cheating Sports president, who awarded another gold, to Iran, for slipping $1,000 in cash into his wallet while he slept in his hotel room...