Word: claiming
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...never thought this would be my claim to fame - these weird, dumb things," she says. In the end, it may not be. Though Keeley says the blog generates some extra income each month, the real prize is a book deal she's hoping to sign this fall. The recently engaged Keeley says she's hoping the money will help finance her wedding...
Opponents of "Obamacare" tried to buy time with the far-fetched claim that reform would leave federal "death panels" to decide which ailing seniors deserved lifesaving care. In other places, rumor drove the debate. At a town hall outside Detroit, a man complained to Democratic Representative John Dingell that his mentally handicapped son would "be given no care" under the Obama plan...
Grubman, Lizzie •claim by that roman à clef by former employee of - which features a drunken or drugged publicist angrily backing her car into a crowd outside a nightclub - "isn't about...
...What distinguishes Hamas - as well as organizations like Hizballah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - from groups like al-Qaeda is that they recognize, whether out of principle or practical necessity, that the will of the people they claim to represent is paramount," says Mouin Rabbani, an Amman-based senior fellow of the Institute for Palestine Studies. "In deciding their actions, they're ultimately more responsive to their environment than to their principles...
...grounds." The decision to release the 57-year-old Al-Megrahi, who continues to proclaim his innocence, sparked outrage from victims' families and drew a condemnation from the Obama Administration, which warned Libyan officials not to grant al-Megrahi "a hero's welcome" upon his return. Conspiracy theorists, meanwhile, claim al-Megrahi was a victim himself, arguing that U.S. authorities steered the investigation away from Syria and Iran in the run-up to the first Gulf War. (Read "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy...