Word: wakes
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...WHIFF French perfumer Francis Kurkdjian based M.A. Sillage de la Reine (the Queen's wake) on M.A.'s tastes. The scent is "like the flutter of a light dress." Translation: a mix including jasmine, rose, cedar and gray amber...
...nuclear umbrella begins to fray in East Asia. What are the consequences for the U.S. and the rest of the world? Are we in an era of barely controlled proliferation, in which countless nations must at least consider the possibility of going nuclear? Or are those fears, in the wake of the North Korean test, overblown? Is there still time to manage the situation...
...wake of the assassination, as suspicions fall on a Syrian man, now President Cheney suspends most civil liberties and itches to invade Syria. To leftists, a government that grounds its policies in paranoia may not seem like fantasy. For others, there's fascination in the whodunit that Range weaves with his fictional talking heads from the Bush White House, the Chicago cops and the FBI. But the killer's ID takes a backseat to the infernal cleverness of the enterprise. D.O.A.P. has a surface plausibility as seductive as a good political campaign...
...offshore oil drilling in Alaska and outlawing gifts from lobbyists to lawmakers are major planks in his campaign platform. He's also been sharply critical of the Bush Administration handling of the war in Iraq, and is pro-choice and liberal on environmental issues. Now, in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal, he's called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down. Though current polls show close to a dead heat, this candidate's opponent has a huge campaign war chest, enough to fill the airwaves with negative ads that could tip the race in his favor...
...emotional speech announcing his withdrawal from the field of politics, and then cites as his reason a desire to spend more time with his family, it's a safe bet he's lying. Men who have spent years sacrificing family on the altar of ambition don't suddenly wake up one morning and decide they've had their priorities all wrong. The truth is usually elsewhere, and elsewhere is often a less than savory place...