Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...landlord and cinema-house owner, Zardari married Bhutto, Pakistan's political princess, in 1987, when she was about to launch her political career. In time, Zardari became Bhutto's political partner, taking posts in her Cabinet and smoothing the ruffled egos the sometimes haughty Prime Minister left in her wake. "He was the fence mender," says Aftab Khan Sherpao, a veteran politician. "If someone [in parliament] had grievances, she sent Zardari in. He was the back channel. He knew how to build relationships...
Statement from the CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY rejecting $100,000 in U.S. relief aid in the wake of Hurricane Gustav and calling instead for an end to economic sanctions...
...still full of a shaky heartiness that causes him to end most of his sentences with an exclamation point. His daughter Glory, unmarried in her late 30s, has come home to take care of him, partly because she doesn't have much else to do in the wake of a failed engagement. "She had dreamed of a real home for herself and the babies, and the fiancé, a home very different from this good and blessed and fustian and oppressive tabernacle of Boughton probity and kind intent." Such a home is not to be hers...
...phrase common in the car sales industry, used to describe taking a hunk of junk, brushing on a fresh coat of paint and selling it for full price. Now, in the wake of Barack Obama's use of the saying and the McCain/Palin attacks against him over it, "putting lipstick on a pig" has become the latest flashpoint in the presidential campaign circus. But politicians and average joes have tossed around the folksy phrase long before this recent bump on the campaign trail. A sampling...
...Mike Huckabee were never going to be more than character actors; and that Rudy Giuliani was a one-hit wonder as a leading man. While the runners-up looked on bravely, Palin blew past them to the head of the line, a cloud of snow and mystery in her wake. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...