Word: claimed
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...issues with no real harm done. That being said, this incident need not lead to an overreaction within the Secret Service. While the president’s safety is of the utmost importance, we hope that he remains accessible to the American people. The Salahis’ strange claim to fame should not prevent Obama from shaking hands with citizens across the country. It just tells us something interesting about what fame means in modern America...
...said that the new vaccine protects against the recurrence of melanoma, though the data supporting this claim remains unpublished...
...gala dinner. "We were invited, not crashers. There isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," Michaele Salahi said, but the couple did not specify who had issued the invitation. On the same program, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs denied that claim, saying, "You don't show up at the White House as a misunderstanding." The Salahis exchanged e-mails about attending the state dinner with a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. But the assistant, Michele Jones, said she made clear to the pair that she could not extend...
...unlike the great powers of old, we have not sought world domination. Our union was founded in resistance to oppression. We do not seek to occupy other nations. We will not claim another nation's resources or target other peoples because their faith or ethnicity is different from ours. What we have fought for - and what we continue to fight for - is a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom and access opportunity...
...accused her boss, a bar owner, of the killing. She wrote that version of events down after first describing it but has since said she invented it after police physically and verbally abused her. The Italian prosecutor filed defamation charges against her family last week for making the same claim...