Word: bbc
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...Lunch for Gromyko. Like many another working couple in their realm, Elizabeth and Philip begin their day by listening to the 8 o'clock BBC newscast. Half an hour later, they discuss it over a breakfast of tea, toast and kippers,'and soon they are lost in a cloud of newspapers. Elizabeth pores through three papers each morning, not overlooking the sports pages, and like most women, she shudders slightly when she sees her own picture. Newspictures have seldom done her justice...
...landlocked, unstable Chad to the west. And indeed, this morning, residents of Chad?s capital, N?Djamena, woke up to find a small group of rebels trying to enter the city and battling government soldiers street by street. The gunfire and shelling began at dawn and, according to a BBC reporter in N?Djamena, lasted two hours before the government troops overpowered the attackers, who nevertheless promised another raid Thursday night...
...addition to his political and academic careers, Ignatieff is a former BBC broadcaster and an award-winning novelist...
...BBC recruited new Netizens last week, sending a reporter with a laptop to the drought-stricken village of Moyale, Ethiopia, so that residents could take part in a daylong online chat with visitors to BBC.com Notes from a Teacher, a Canadian journalism instructor's blog, praised the BBC for "facilitating public, person-to-person conversation." The Concoction, an Africa-focused blog, saw a lesson for NGOs, which should "follow the BBC's example" and talk to locals "before they design their projects." Wonkette played the snarky cynic: "Live starving villagers waiting to talk to you!" it said. "That...
Dershowitz also said that he had been scheduled to Mearsheimer on the BBC at 10:30 p.m Eastern time this past Thursday. But Dershowitz said that he received a call at 10:35 p.m. saying that Mearsheimer had canceled the debate...