Word: sphinx
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...Rama Yade, who reportedly suggested that there would have to be "conditions" if Sarkozy was to attend the Olympics? The Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who has remained discreet on the subject? Or the French President, who tends to express himself on the matter with all the clarity of a sphinx? The diversity of voices characteristic of a true democracy is difficult to grasp for a nondemocratic culture. The Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, made the Dalai Lama and Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident, honorary citizens of his city at the very moment French official envoys were...
...placed on the ground or touched by any but the elect. It circles Jericho behind the trumpets to bring the walls tumbling down. The Bible last places the Ark in Solomon's temple, which Babylonians destroyed in 586 BC. Scholars debate its current locale (if any): under the Sphinx? Beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount (or, to Muslims, the Noble Sanctuary)? In France? Near London's Temple tube station? (See the top 10 religion stories...
...sociopath like Ms. Covett. The story concerns the arrival of Blanchett’s Sheba Hart at the gritty London middle school where Covett chairs the history department. Hart is an instant school celebrity, more for her figure than for her teaching abilities. “Is she a sphinx, or merely stupid?” Dench’s character inquires with characteristic acidity in one of the narrative voice-overs that take regular—and usually shocking—extracts from her journal entries. According to the movie’s tagline, “one woman?...
HEDGE FUNDS Like mutual funds, hedge funds are pooled investments, primarily in publicly traded securities. But they're generally more aggressive, employing riskier strategies such as trading options and selling short. Once the province of multimillionaires, some new hedge-fund pools, like Rydex's SPhinX, are available for initial investments...
...maps, the historian traverses ground that has since been overrun by tyrannies and famine. The arena is variously host to epic, comedy and finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here are camels and trucks, scimitars and machine...