Word: wearings
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...town's residents can peer across a stretch of river at the scrubby, brown hills of North Korea, knowing that hidden from view are bunkers, artillery and rockets that could turn their town into rubble in an hour. But for people like Kim In Tae, who sells women's wear in Ilsan's Lotte department store, the weaponry poses no more of a threat than a stand of pine trees. "Unless the U.S. attacks North Korea first, I'm not nervous," Kim says. "North Korea wants to be equal to the U.S. in the international community. They don't have...
Several Houses sent large contingents of vocal supporters to cheer on their nominees—Winthrop residents even brought along a canine mascot to escort McCambridge down the aisle during the formal-wear competition...
...expertise in navigating crises; in Washington. The courtly intellectual's feats of diplomacy included persuading the deposed Shah of Iran to leave the U.S. for Panama during the Iranian hostage crisis; helping manage the media during Clinton's Whitewater flap; and urging onetime client Mick Jagger to wear a tie to Washington's tony Metropolitan Club. A lifelong Democrat, he recently served on President Bush's commission to investigate pre-9/11 intelligence failures...
...Does anyone still wear a veil...
...figures huddled beside the graveyard on the road that leads into the Pakistani town of Mardan seemed an unremarkable group, their identities obscured behind the head-to-toe burqas that local women traditionally wear. But these were no ordinary women--in fact, they weren't women at all. Instead, the burqas concealed a group of Pakistani commandos who were waiting last week for a killer. U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract...