Word: straws
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Coming Home British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that after "intensive and complex discussions," the U.S. government would release the remaining four Britons being held at Guantá namo Bay. The release, expected within weeks, would bring to an end an embarrassing diplomatic tussle between Downing Street and its closest ally; the detainees' three-year confinement and allegations of mistreatment and torture have triggered a huge outcry in Britain. But what will happen to the men - Feroz Abbasi, Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga - isn't clear. While the Pentagon, which also plans to release an Australian detainee, said...
Chery has already done crazy things to China's auto market, which in turn could have a huge impact on America. The reason is overcapacity. Although executives in Detroit would drink windshield-wiper fluid through a straw for the roughly 15% growth in car sales that China saw last year, in China that increase might be too slow to keep up with production. Foreign firms like GM, Volkswagen and Ford have invested billions of dollars in China to make far more cars than the market can absorb. Last year Chinese consumers bought about 2.2 million cars, and assembly lines...
...more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass on Christmas Eve of 1223 around a back-to-basics pageant that, as he wrote, showed "how He suffered the lack for all those things needed by an infant...
...became clear throughout the afternoon that professors are overwhelmingly undecided about what the general education system should look like. In an impromptu straw poll taken by Sandel towards the end of the over two-hour discussion, approximately 12 professors said they would favor a system of strict distributional requirements, while about twice that number voted in favor of a distributional system that would include Harvard College Courses...
...moderation, majesty, and passion in their musical forms. Molly M. Altenburg ’07 begins as Allegro Moderato—the warm colors of the lighting and her languid style emphasizes the moderation of the title. In one of the transitions whose ease marks the piece, Erin A. Straw ’07 enters as the epitome of majesty, Allegro Maestoso. Her performance is much more lively, almost frantic—but it is similar to Altenburg’s in that it seems as though she barely puts forth any effort at all. Lauren E. Chin...