Word: sonly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...iconic egg-shaped souvenirs, made of smaller and smaller wooden dolls hidden one within the other. But on a recent Thursday afternoon, there were only about a dozen people looking to buy. At one table, Olga Isakova waited on her first customers of the day, a man and his son who examined a bright blue-and-white nesting doll with curly blond hair and a heart-shaped mouth before putting it down and walking away. "My sales have fallen 10% to 20% since the fall," says Isakova. "I'm only selling the cheap stuff these days...
...Loving man, beautiful woman, dutiful son: this happy family of Catholics is so devout that the mother gives her boy, Yu, a statue of the Virgin Mary and tells him, "Find someone just like her to marry." When the mother dies young, her husband becomes a priest with a gift for applying God's word to his parishioners' lives. The father-son bond is tested when the priest is stalked and seduced by an unstable woman who soon deserts him, leaving this gracious man severe and doctrinaire. How can Yu reconnect with his father? By committing outrageous sins and confessing...
Though older now, and a bit infirm, and increasingly consumed with thoughts of passing on to his youngest son the family business (running North Korea into the ground), Kim Jong Il still has a fondness for a decent Fourth of July fireworks show. Pyongyang shot at least seven short-range SCUD missiles in the direction of the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, in what some analysts termed an act of "defiance" against the United States and its allies in east Asia. But the SCUDS, fired from the eastern coast of North Korea, have limited range, and fell harmlessly into...
...Palin's book is slated for release in time for Mother's Day 2010. In addition to the trade edition, there will be a special version for the Christian market under HarperCollins' Zondervan imprint. Her editor is Adam Bellow, son of the late novelist Saul Bellow. Palin and Bellow have already huddled in person, and the book is under way. (TIME photographs: Sarah Palin...
...Immediately after Bhutto's assassination, many Pakistanis accused elements within Musharraf's government or the military establishment of involvement - a charge angrily denied by Musharraf and his aides. Still, just last month, Bhutto's son and political heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, suggested that the dictatorship had been responsible for creating the conditions that led to his mother's killing. At a rare public speech in the British town of Bradford, the 20-year-old Oxford University student - who plans to return to Pakistan and enter politics after completing his degree - told an emotionally-charged crowd of supporters: "The extremists pulled...