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...just a fucking doorman. 2. “D’oh” (“The Simpsons Movie”)—Need to vent frustration without offending your family members? Consider this innocuous syllable. Plus, the pop-culture reference will reinforce your command of highbrow art. And it’s already in the dictionary! 3. “McLovin” (“Superbad”)—Because adding “Mc” before adjectives or nouns makes words palatable and more credible. 4. “Ratatouille?...
...causes. In July 1996, Bain Managing Director Robert Gay told Romney that Gay’s 14-year-old daughter had gone missing in New York City. Immediately, Romney closed Bain’s Boston office, shipped most of its 30 employees to New York City, and established a command center in a hotel, where they wrote a five-part plan. Romney recruited 250 people from associated Wall Street firms to help with the search. Together, they posted 250,000 flyers with the girl’s picture throughout the city. The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes reports...
...there and change things,” Sundquist said earlier.Sundquist said yesterday that he and Sarafa would be devoting the coming week to meeting with administrators, faculty, and fellow UC representatives to discuss the coming year.But, with the election just ended, the president-elect and his second-in-command have already had an opportunity to make good on a campaign promise—taking to the snow-sprinkled banks of the Charles River to join the members of the Alaska Klub for an 8 a.m. plunge on Saturday.On a morning where the real-feel temperature was 22 degrees, according...
...town in a country ostensibly under the control of more than 40,000 NATO troops and their Afghan allies. Musa Qala is also at the center of the opium industry, whose revenues fuel the Taliban insurgency, and its location near the mountains north of Helmand make it a useful command center for an insurgent army. For all the same reasons, it's important to NATO to dislodge the Taliban. That, and the fact that it's a do-over, correcting what many officials see as a mistake by the British forces that allowed the Taliban to take control...
With the help of experts from Sichuan University, the story continued, Tan's team won the competition and then had a month of intense training organized by the provincial military command, simulating attacks, designing hacking tools and drafting network-infiltration strategies. Tan was then chosen to represent the Sichuan Military Command in competition with other provinces. His team won again, after which, the iDefense reports say, he founded the NCPH and acquired an unidentified benefactor ("most likely the PLA") to subsidize the group's activities to the tune of $271 a month...