Word: strucke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, the Indian media went wild. Lloyd Webber had been captivated by Rahman's music, so he traveled to Bombay to meet the Asian master. If Rahman had been female and Lloyd Webber Indian and single, it could have been the perfect Bollywood film plot. A deal was struck, and Bombay Dreams, composed by Rahman and produced by Lloyd Webber and his Really Useful Group at a reported cost of $7 million, will open at London's Apollo Victoria theater on June...
...fable" patched together by the White House and Defense Department "as one lie called forth another." He maintains that neither American Airlines Flight 77 nor any other aircraft crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11: the explosion supposedly detonated on the ground. He similarly rejects notions that the planes that struck the World Trade Center were flown by al-Qaeda terrorists and argues they were directed from the ground by remote control...
...strategy that's working for Bantam Interactive is to operate under the biggies' radar. Bantam struck gold with its BA 350 player, launched in October. Sales of the $200 unit reached 10,000 through the holidays, and the company says it sells about 8,500 players a month. Bantam doesn't advertise or sell through retailers. Consumers shop on Bantam's website, bantamusa.com A skeleton crew does design and engineering in St. Louis, Mo. Flash-memory chips and circuit boards come from Taiwan and South Korea. The units are assembled and packaged in China and sent directly to customers...
...Backed by U.S. airpower, around 1,000 troops swung into action against suspected Taliban fighters close to the border with Pakistan. But there seemed no end to mishaps: a U.S. bombing raid mistakenly killed more than 10 civilians, and more than 300 British soldiers were quarantined after 38 were struck down by a contagious gastric illness. CHINA Confusion Says Three North Koreans who sought asylum in a U.S. consulate in Shenyang, and two others at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, were finally allowed to fly to South Korea via Singapore. But confusion surrounded the fate of five other North Korean...
...Beren Tennis Center this past weekend, watching the Harvard men’s tennis team roll over its first-round opponent in the NCAA tournament, when something struck me: this is the team’s best showing in my three years here. So I went home, clicked on the Internet archives of this paper and found something even more bedeviling—there have been a lot of times in this past school year when we’ve written that a Harvard sports team had its best season in “x” number of years...