Word: souza
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...millionaire who wears silk pajamas and writes a weekly column for Dawn in which he tracks corruption to the highest places, vows to stay put, as does sociologist and city planner Arif Hassan who campaigns to save the few remaining buildings from Karachi's regal colonial past. Roland De Souza, whose organization SHERRI fights against illegal land developers whom he says are often in cahoots with city nabobs and some military officers, also insists he will always call Karachi his home. They, along with many other die-hard citizens, find that Karachi possesses a dynamism missing in other Pakistani cities...
...time TV, and a few winning films the chance to splash a statuette on tens of millions of DVD boxes. And damn the cost in agita and outrageous cell-phone bills. "This has been one of the most difficult Oscar weeks I have ever experienced," Carlos Souza, p.r. maven for the couturier Valentino, told the New York Times...
...imagine Steven de Souza or some other Hollywood scribe hearing of "A Number" and drooling over the exploitation possibilities. But Churchill is less interested in the garish colors of melodrama than the shadings of personality. In Salter, the joy of early parenthood turns bitter and abusive when his wife killed herself and he is left with dreams of killing his own son by reproducing him. In the nice Bernard, revelation upends an ordinary life: however hard it is to learn you were adopted, it must be - given the double-time march of science it certainly will be - harder to learn...
...Sasha Souza, an event planner in Napa Valley, Calif., says that "the couple sets the tone. If your mother refuses to be in the same room with your stepmother, you just have to say, 'Mom, I'm sorry you feel that way, but it's your choice to not come if you don't want.'" Etiquette dictates that invited family members be allowed to bring a spouse or guest of their choosing to the wedding, whether or not others in the family--including the bride--approve of that person. All of these decisions have to be handled calmly and well...
Moderator Xavier de Souza Briggs, who is an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, pointed to statistics illustrating the rise of minorities’ presence...