In our culture, the more off limits a topic is, the more it intrigues us.
Is this the former Kremlin power-broker, known mostly for political intrigues and murky business deals?
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His name became synonomous with passion after a series of romantic intrigues across Europe.
What intrigues all these researchers is how much more quantum trickery may be out there in nature.
There is no subject that intrigues, repels, frightens, confuses, inspires, contradicts and exasperates Americans more than race.
The idea of a Book of Ideas intrigues me and it turns out it is not entirely new.
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But bear in mind that internal intrigues are nothing new in any party and certainly not the Democrats.
With that option now closed, Noda is more exposed to the intrigues of an opportunistic and none-too-scrupulous LDP.
Whether or not Mr Hughes's plausible theory is correct, it intrigues and entertains.
Few things are as encompassing to culture as our currency, or as vital that they be thought free of intrigues.
Shorn of such spicy intrigues, in fact, there would be little new in Pakistan's latest contribution to the war on terror.
Ordinary savings accounts may seem far removed from the intrigues of international politics and finance, but its a small world these days.
And according to author Aaron Chapman, it now acts as a time capsule link to a period that intrigues many history-loving locals.
There were injustices that were committed, intrigues here and there and everywhere.
The movie, however, profits from his strollings, for what intrigues Ceylan is not success, or good companionship, but the chilly drift of melancholia.
Like a royal court, the Grand Hotel et des Palmes has been the scene of intrigues and liaisons throughout Palermo's rich history.
In Chechnya she lurks mostly in the margins of the fighting among spooks, middlemen and aid-workers whose ambitions and intrigues she captures lucidly.
It had followed a period of drift and growing tension, marked by strikes, assassinations, riots and intrigues between Communists, Muslim Brothers and the king.
One model that intrigues me, as a way to make freelancing more accessible, is the one used by Elance, an online talent marketplace.
Nothing in the documents tells me exactly how, or how well, this works, but it intrigues me, so I will look into for a future post.
After all, what intrigues Lassiter is making decisions in the light of incomplete and inadequate information and designing the lowest-cost experiments that can test those decisions.
This stuff is insider baseball, HP palace politics, but nonetheless, a whole slew of tea-leaf-readers follow and interpret these intrigues before, during, and after they unfold.
The Haas brothers love L.A. for its abundance of raw materials, and will often scour factory warehouses and special effects shops looking for anything that intrigues them.
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The initial contact especially intrigues her, the bafflement on both sides, an equality of wonder which, however briefly, belies the more common tale of ferocity or exploitation.
Audio-visual spectacles in the evening would project Muhammad ascending to heaven as well as the re-enactment of intrigues that culminate with Herod butchering members of his family.
Palin's record as a small-town mayor and then a state governor is full of the kinds of anecdotes and petty intrigues common to a lot of political careers.
There is one particular photograph that intrigues me the most.
But there is something beneath the surface that intrigues me.
What intrigues investigators is the timing--and where the money went.
Speaking of corruption, Russia intrigues Alwaleed but also frightens him.
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