Word: vesting
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...assault apparently aimed at chilling negotiations between the Iraqi government and a faction of the insurgency, the Iraqi Parliament, located in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet...
...nationalist faction of the insurgency that has turned on al-Qaeda in recent weeks. That was the likely motive in an earlier attack on March 23, when Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zubaie was hospitalized after an attack reportedly carried out by a guard who detonated a suicide vest at al-Zubaie's compound on the edge of the Green Zone. Al-Zubaie, a Sunni from a powerful tribe west of Baghdad, is an important promoter of the reconciliation policy...
USAGE Critics on the left roasted McCain for the walk, saying it could be his Michael Dukakis moment. They also gleefully pointed out the security required for the photo-op amble: beyond the bulletproof vest, he was guarded by more than 100 soldiers in armored humvees and attack helicopters...
...atone for assaulting her maid with a phone, supermodel Naomi Campbell began community service on March 19 at the N.Y.C. Department of Sanitation. Her job: mopping and sweeping. Her hat: Chanel. PEOPLE.COM said, "Another day of cleanup, another drop-dead outfit for Naomi Campbell." Mmm ... work-vest orange. SCORE...
...mitzvah.” Charitably, the author—Princeton’s Tessa Brown ’08—managed to identify one black man worthy of praise, seeing in “Kanye West and his ghetto fabulous take on the argyle sweater vest,” a true fashionista’s eye. Oh wait, Kanye West isn’t “ghetto fabulous.” He’s just black...