Word: staines
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...willing to risk the unfettered return of a once-loathed leader who has come to represent a renewed call for democracy in Pakistan. But fewer still thought Musharraf would actually defy the Supreme Court order by not letting him in the country at all. "This is a shame, a stain, a disgrace," says analyst Brig. Gen. Talat Masood. "It shows the weakness of the government. Every action that Musharraf is taking is making things more difficult for him." While small riots have already erupted across Pakistan over Sharif's deportation, the more significant battles will now be fought...
...Provost has a love-hate relationship with the market economy. Seated in the Dunster House courtyard, she dons a detectably African top ($1), snacks on fresh plump strawberries ($5), and shows off her hot-off-the-shelves purchase, a thrift-store turquoise dress with a brown stain to boot ($6 or $7, she estimates). “I am a hypocrite,” she says, adding that she’s tried dumpster-diving and sewing her own clothes. “To right now divorce myself entirely from the market economy and to retreat into a cottage somewhere...
...Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain,” there’s a big line about halfway through in which the main character tries to decide “to be content with something less grandiose than self-banishment.” In so doing he is overwhelmed by the smallness of that which he’s agreeing to, and he realizes how hard it will be “to live with one’s failure in a modest fashion.” How truly shabby it will be to lead...
...team’s 2007 performance clears its name of the slight stain left by last year’s season—the only time in the last five years that the heavyweights haven’t won Sprints despite many returning varsity oarsmen...
...asset for his party, Fianna Fail. A relentless campaigner with a flair for projecting himself as an ordinary guy - the entire country seems to be on first-name terms with him - he also earned the nickname "Teflon Taoiseach" by sliding away from a web of corruption scandals without a stain. Over the past three weeks he pulled out all the all the stops and called in favors from old friends. Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsed him in a campaign video and he cleverly timed plaudits for his central role in the Northern Ireland peace process...