Word: campaigners
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Most of the 30,000 defendants charged with illegal downloading during a five-year litigation campaign by the recording industry settle for between $3,000 and $12,000. In the only other file-sharing case to go to trial, the defendant was ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages for downloading 24 songs, or $80,000 per song...
...being as stubborn as an angry umpire. "Over the past year, some of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising. The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to run an effective campaign for the U.S. Senate." (See an interactive guide of President Obama's first 100 days...
...another run for Bunning would seriously risk just that. During Bunning's last campaign, he endured repeated questions about his age and mental stability. Always prone to outlandish statements, Bunning made news when he said his opponent Daniel Mongiardo, then a state senator and now a lieutenant governor who is expected to run for the seat in 2010, looked like "one of Saddam Hussein's sons." (In 2006, TIME named Bunning one of America's worst Senators...
Phase 2 has begun. Six weeks after millions took to the streets to protest Iran's presidential election, their uprising has morphed into a feistier, more imaginative and potentially enduring campaign...
...years since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kurdistan has been relatively peaceful compared with the rest of the country, in large part owing to its ruling parties, which began as guerrilla groups fighting Saddam's genocidal campaign against the ethnic Kurdish minority. After Saddam's downfall, the two parties put aside their differences - the KDP is a tribal-style organization dominated by the Barzani family, and the PUK is a socialist-like group run by a party cadre led by Jalal Talabani - to present a united Kurdish front in negotiations with Arab Iraqis and the U.S. over...