The visitors to the Embassy included some of Putin's fiercest critics, and, after their session with McFaul and Burns, representatives of state television lobbed accusatory questions at them as if they had just received marching orders for an act of high treason.
With conditions deteriorating, an official at Tokyo headquarters says he has just received "strict orders" from the prime minister's office that Mr. Kan wants nothing in the media about the state of reactor No. 3. (Mr. Kan's representatives were not on hand, so what was actually said remains unclear).
"We just received the order today," Pagni said.
The company just received an order for 50 dolls that look like John Thain, the former Merrill Lynch chief executive.
"As we have only just received the order, the Department is not currently in a position to render a fully informed contemplation of what the judge's order actually demands," Breasseale said.
From those miraculous hats (for which the milliner Stephen Jones has just received an Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II) to shoes with carved heels and a frame of pearls, the show displayed the essence of haute couture.
He is especially excited about two recent wrinkles: one of his machines has a cameo in an informational film being made by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, and he just received an order from the New York City public schools.
It was explained to participants that they could exchange the token they had just received in order to switch their choice, or they could choose the box they had previously chosen for free.
So in January 2005, the couple arrived at Fort Bragg, N.C., where after just four months, without notice, he received orders to deploy to Iraq, leaving her behind.
