Word: cannon
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...headed into the three-day visit to Algeria Monday, the usually combative Sarkozy and his team took pains to quell the rising tensions between France and its former colonial possession, and wave off the anti-Semitic comments in particular as the uttering of a loose cannon seeking to advance an anti-French agenda. Rather than canceling the trip, Elysée officials said Sarkozy planned to press ahead to help restore bilateral relations between the two countries - and sign nearly $5 billion in business contracts prepared for finalization for the likes of energy companies Total and Gaz de France. "These...
...Cannon pointed to a cover story he wrote for the magazine last year called “Why Presidents Lie” as an example of depth of thought that topical coverage can achieve...
...been working on that piece for six months,” says Cannon. In the tradition of “The Atlantic,” the article was very historically based, but Cannon rewrote part of it at the last minute to incorporate presidential fibs regarding the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld...
...think readers want both. They want something they’ve never seen anywhere else, but they also don’t want something too ephemeral,” Cannon says. “In the past you didn’t need a newspeg. However, it was always about what was happening and a topic in civil discourse...
...Cannon added that the shift to more time-sensitive coverage was hardly new. He says he wrote a piece on Bill Clinton’s legacy for the magazine about seven years...