Word: ferdinand
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...wish I didn't keep making a connection between people who believe in a flat tax and people who believe in a flat earth. The vision I can't seem to get out of my head has Steve Forbes as both Ferdinand and Isabella, smiling his dorky smile under two different powdered wigs while economists from the Brookings Institution demonstrate with the same apple Columbus used that there would be a shortfall in federal revenues of $186 billion a year...
...from his dukedom who seeks revenge. When the men who betrayed him are near the shore of his island, he sends a storm to wreck their ship and bring them all onto the shore. As he plans revenge, oversees the engagement of his daughter Miranda (Jessalyn Gilsig) to Prince Ferdinand of Naples (Scott Ripley) and foils Caliban's plot against his life, Freeman evokes every doubt, conviction and emotion Prospero experiences. He is temperamental and harsh with his spirit-servant Ariel, kind but strict toward Caliban and a little amazed by his own decision to forgive his betrayers and give...
...lives than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. We need not only a nuclear-free world but a world free of civilian atomic garbage. And above all, we need a world free of poor leadership. It has been said, if we seriously want to disarm, we must first disarm the spirit. ROGER FERDINAND LOUIS FAURE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
When he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar managed a fractious group of Senators through a thicket of contentious issues like aid to the contras. He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to leave office but lined up votes to override Reagan's veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts...
Their parents were bitter opponents, but Kris Aquino, 23, and Ferdinand (``Bongbong'') Marcos Jr., 36, have turned the other cheek. The daughter of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino invited the late dictator's son, who is now a Congressman, onto her Manila TV talk show. ``Did you hate us?'' she asked meaningfully. ``Maybe in the beginning,'' he admitted. After a chat, they kissed politely. Corazon Aquino is reported to be ``very, very upset'' about the encounter on the show, but Bongbong's mother Imelda declared, ``The older generation has a lot to learn from their children...