Word: redoubtable
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...After hunting former military police commander Alfredo Reinado for months, the Australian-led International Stabilization Force was recently called off the chase by President José Ramos-Horta. But speaking with TIME near his mountain redoubt, Reinado says the change of government has not changed his stance. He is still at war, he says, with Dili and with...
...listen to CNBC? Turn the dial a few notches to HGTV, and the housing boom has never been boomier. HGTV, the homespun redoubt of gardening and glue-gun projects that became a cable hit in the post-9/11 cocooning era, is now dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under...
...they are bare this year, as if hitting 60 were something to hide, not trumpet. It's either a false modesty or a decorative oversight, for Cannes has not forgotten how to promote itself. The celebrity quotient is high-Leo and Matt, George Clooney and Brangelina-and this Riviera redoubt is also crawling with esteemed auteurs, including a couple dozen top-prize winners of Palmes d'Or past. On opening night, a gawker would have seen the cream of world directors in formal dress entering the Grand Palais, from 28-year-old Canadian Sarah Polley to Portugal's Manoel...
...special forces, backed up by CIA agents and officers, have little information on bin Laden's whereabouts despite the $25 million bounty on his head. The last time they came close to him was in late 2001, when he apparently escaped a tightening noose as he fled his mountain redoubt at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan...
...world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows to make nukes a clean, safe choice for the post-oil future. Muriel Mayette Head Of La Comedie-Francaise Last month she became administrator general of the prestigious state theater, a male redoubt since its founding in 1680. She told Le Monde she intends to make it "a symbolic fiefdom for the defense of French culture." Laurence Parisot President Of Medef The CEO of the marketing firm IFOP has brought an unpatriarchal touch to France's main confederation of employers since her election...