Word: blower
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years ago, he used a leaf-blower on stage to get the audience’s attention. In the lyrics of “Beercan,” Beck declares, “I quit my job blowing leaves,” and it seems like he finally has. There was still plenty of performance art, but none of it was frantic, and none of it felt forced. The fatherhood, the religion, the aging—it’s only turned Beck into someone who knows how to relax and be an expert performer. Not a faker...
...doing so, afraid that the independent trackers may jeopardize investigations by trailing foes too noisily or, even worse, may be bad guys themselves. When Carpenter deputized himself to delve into the Titan Rain group, he put his career in jeopardy. But he remains defiant, saying he's a whistle-blower whose case demonstrates the need for reforms that would enable the U.S. to respond more effectively and forcefully against the gathering storm of cyberthreats...
...compulsory for South Korean men in their late teens or 20s to serve at least two years in the military, and it's not a lot of fun. The discipline can be intense: earlier this year, a whistle-blower accused a captain of ordering his troops to dip their fingers into a dirty toilet bowl and then stick them in their mouths. In June, a young conscript stationed near the DMZ allegedly threw a live grenade into a tent full of sleeping comrades and sprayed it with his K-1 semiautomatic, killing eight. It's still unclear what caused...
...strict father" governance embraced by Republicans. In less Freudian terms, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says "the military and these other institutions are greatly respected." Hence the Democrats' netting a former CIA officer in Illinois and a former FBI agent in Minnesota, whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, who testified about mistakes the bureau made before Sept. 11. But the Dems' biggest coup may involve a different kind of uniform: former Redskins quarterback Heath Shuler has agreed to run in his native North Carolina. --By Perry Bacon...
...journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press." Hogan disagreed, saying this "is a case in which the information [Miller] was given and her potential use of it was a crime ... This is very different than a whistle-blower outing government misconduct." Hogan sent Miller to the Alexandria Detention Center in nearby Virginia, where she will remain for as long as four months, unless she agrees to testify...