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| Alaska authorities say woman may have died in wolf attack Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:07:25 EST Authorities in Alaska are investigating whether a wolf attack killed a 32-year-old woman whose body was found in a remote area near a small village. |
| High school hires female football coach Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:49:24 EST A high school in Washington, D.C., is set to name a former women's professional football player as its head varsity football coach Friday, a move that a national women's sports advocacy group calls historic. |
| Independent counsel named in Paterson investigations Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:40:36 EST New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has appointed a former chief judge of the State Appellate Court to oversee two investigations of Gov. David Paterson. |
| Fifth-grader spends birthday lobbying for health care reform Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:58:21 EST While most 11-year-olds would probably celebrate their birthdays with a party, Marcelas Owens was on the steps of Capitol Hill rallying for health care reform. |
| School sued for canceling prom over lesbian student Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:49:34 EST A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend. |
| Officials: Bacterial meningitis kills Oklahoma student Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:07:52 EST An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness. |
| Ex-NOPD cop admits role in cover-up of LA bridge shooting Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:14:10 EST A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said. |
| Coroner: Post-Katrina hospital death not homicide Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:36:13 EST After reviewing the case of a woman who died at New Orleans, Louisiana's Memorial Hospital in the days after Hurricane Katrina, coroner Frank Minyard said Thursday that he cannot classify her death as a homicide. |
| Report: 12-year-olds abusing inhalants Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:20:51 EST When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else: getting high on inhalants. |
| Ex-Obama adviser: Democrats may get 'slaughtered' in fall Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:43:39 EST Steve Hildebrand, one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 12, 2010 is:
sub rosa • \sub-ROH-zuh\ • adverb
: in confidence : secretly
Example sentence:
The private investigator met sub rosa with his client to show her photos of her husband rendezvousing at various local establishments with another woman.
Did you know?
"Sub rosa" literally means "under the rose" in New Latin. Since ancient times, the rose has often been associated with secrecy. In ancient mythology, Cupid gave a rose to Harpocrates, the god of silence, to keep him from telling about the indiscretions of Venus. Ceilings of dining rooms have been decorated with carvings of roses, reportedly to remind guests that what was said at the table should be kept confidential. Roses have also been placed over confessionals as a symbol of the confidentiality of confession. "Sub rosa" entered the English language in the 17th century, and even before then, people were using the English version, "under the rose." Earlier still, "unter der Rose" was apparently used in Germany, where the phrase is thought to have originated.