Word: south
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sparkman's body was found on Sept. 12 near a small family cemetery in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, about 18 miles south of the county seat of Manchester. According to published reports, Sparkman died of asphyxiation. Kentucky state police, who are in charge of the investigation, with FBI assistance, have not determined whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accident, but an assistant director at the Census Bureau's southern office says the police have told them it is an apparent homicide. (See pictures of this summer's tea-party protests...
...life is fair, then the International Olympic Committee will next week declare that Brazil has been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and thus become the first South American nation to win one of sports' greatest honors...
...other main contenders are the U.S., Spain and Japan, and they've all hosted the Olympics before. So, Brazilians, with their beaches, sun, and a vibrant economy whose recent performance has shamed many developing-world rivals, believe that Rio de Janiero - and South America - deserves the chance to show what it can do. (See the long history of Olympic politics...
...most recent report. Another upside is that Rio has a well-deserved reputation as one of the world's most stunningly beautiful and welcoming cities. The third upside is the one that Lula and Rio officials have been hammering home: that fair is fair; that this is South America's turn. It is a valid argument. South America deserves its chance. But it also needs someone to make sure it keeps its promises...
...that you have conducted yourself since? Ahmadinejad: I thank you for your question. If I may, I would like to improve on some of the questions you have raised. I did not live in Nasiabad; it was not my old neighborhood. Nasiabad is a locality in the south of Tehran and I lived in the eastern side of Tehran. A second point is with respect to the number of people who were martyred on Iranian side as a result of the war. The total number of people who lost their lives or were martyred as a result...