Word: victorias
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...HONG KONG: With only 26 days of free speech remaining before China takes control of Hong Kong, protesters erected a 26-foot statue in Hong Kong?s Victoria Park depicting a heap of 50 contorted human bodies, their eyes filled with terror. An inscription on the base of the statue, which honors the hundreds of activists killed eight years ago on June 4 in Beijing?s Tiananmen Square protests, reads: ?The old cannot kill the young forever.? City Hall had rejected an application from Democratic leaders to display the statue, saying it was contrary to what the government calls...
...first working day as an officer, Knowles was assigned to pick up 250 enlisted men from London's Victoria station and get them safely delivered to Germany by train...
...What's Victoria's real secret? well, possibly that some of those frilly unmentionables ogled in catalogues and purchased from pink boutiques may be illegally imported from China. That's the allegation being leveled at the Limited, the retail giant that controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong...
...setting out to destroy his marriage." Without engaging in a debate about the Globe's ethics or Gifford's morals, one has to feel a certain sympathy for him. He is having a rather rough spring, with both the Globe's sting operation and the news that his daughter Victoria, from his first marriage, is divorcing Michael Kennedy because Kennedy cheated on her with the family baby-sitter. Gifford surely doesn't deserve to be the subject of so many monologue jokes by Jay Leno and Letterman. Frank has to answer to Kathie Lee. Albert, on the other hand...
Will Kennedy-family scandals never end? Currently embroiled: MICHAEL KENNEDY, 39-year-old son of the late Senator Robert F. The Boston Globe reports that Michael, who separated two weeks ago from his wife Victoria (daughter of sportscaster Frank Gifford), allegedly kept up a five-year affair with his children's baby sitter, starting when she was 14. The young woman, daughter of a prominent Massachusetts entrepreneur, has not commented on the matter, but prosecutors are investigating the statutory-rape allegations. Meanwhile, the new flap won't help Michael's brother Joseph, who has his eye on the Massachusetts governorship...