Word: smoked
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...Justice Ministry's bailiff service. "At least, we are not intending to." But many analysts say that Russian authorities are out to do just that. One senior U.S. diplomat in Moscow told TIME that there are "increasing signs that the destruction of the company is the endgame." When the smoke clears, the Yukos name may survive, but little else of the company's management, structure and independence is likely to remain. One widely held belief is that the Kremlin will take the 60% share package currently owned by the company's former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a small group...
...turning the resistance into an international jihadist movement. Foreign fighters, once estranged from homegrown guerrilla groups, are now integrated as cells or complete units with Iraqis. Many of Saddam's former secret police and Republican Guard officers, who two years ago were drinking and whoring, no longer dare even smoke cigarettes. They are fighting for Allah, they say, and true jihadis reject such earthly indulgences...
Cantabrigians and Harvard students are forced to step outside for a smoke at Cambridge restaurants and bars after a new smoking ban goes into effect...
...door we went. Just as I peeled out, it seemed that the whole world lit up right underneath me. A tremendous ball of fire. And a bunch of black smoke mixed in with the red fire, just a great fireball. And I said to myself, The bastards are waiting for us. I tried to slip away from the thing, and tracers were coming up and through the silk. They were coming up just in strings. I can remember them being so close that I actually pulled my legs up as far as I could, my knee into my stomach...
This is of no consequence to Jim Jarmusch, whose sneakily delirious film offers a series of vignettes in which a number of potent stars (Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop among them), playing fictionalized versions of themselves, consume large quantities of nasty-looking java and enough smoke to put the entire nation on a Stage 3 smog alert...