Word: complaints
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...could haul out the usual verities about how all great writers steal, Shakespeare included, and how in the Middle Ages plagiarism wasn't even considered a bad thing, but it's really not necessary. The disparity between the greatness of McEwan?s achievement and the pettiness of this complaint is vertiginous. That McEwan even bothered to answer the charges is gobsmacking...
...that an aide had forged receipts when tallying mayoral expenses. Ma also spent last Thursday morning being questioned by prosecutors over expense money Ma says went to charitable donations, but which his adversaries have accused him of keeping for himself. DPP lawmakers were the first to lodge an official complaint over Ma's expense accounts in August, and they have hammered the mayor over the issue in regular press conferences. While Ma has denied any wrongdoing in either case, the resulting media coverage has been intense. "The unraveling of the mismanaging of special funds in Mayor Ma's office...
...JUST COME OUT ALREADY" (Nov. 12, 5:40 p.m.), but perhaps naive impatience isn't always the solution. It certainly wasn't for one Robert N. Dole '68—not the senator— whose sexual encounter with his Phillips Exeter roommate led to a complaint to the Exeter infirmary and eventually to intermittent psychotherapy during both Exeter and Harvard...
...enforcement campaign against illegal dog ownership, which began November 13, has caused a storm of complaint and protest everywhere from Beijing's streets to the electronic bulletin boards and blogs of China's hyper-active cyber universe. And the issue has created some unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered...
...Munich, where he was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, unless Germany disposed of the case. The day before the conference, a German prosecutor announced he would not pursue the matter, saying there was no indication that U.S. authorities and courts would not deal with allegations in the complaint...