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...murder. He invoked the unfortunate cliché "tar baby" early on, but just as interesting as his missteps are his striking successes. He said Bob Woodward's book, critical of the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq after the invasion, was "like cotton candy--it kind of melts on contact." After John Kerry was caught in a gaffe that appeared to demean the armed forces, Snow thundered, "This is an absolute insult...
...flooding had stopped and completely receded by 10 a.m.—but not before reaching a depth of about one-inch in her bathroom and overflowing into the suite’s common room. When the maintenance staff returned, they began disposing of items that had come in contact with the water. “Anything that would touch your skin—shampoos, towels, mats—they were thrown out,” she said. The flood drove fellow Eliot resident Flavio S. Campos ’08 from his room to Dunster House, where...
...pollsters will be allowed to contact their respective networks and supply them with the poll data. The NEP member organizations cannot prevent pollsters from making other calls, nor can they control the data once it's in the networks' hands, so if there are leaks, that's when they are likely to occur...
...Earlier this week, Qanbar made contact with an intermediary trusted by the kidnappers. In a secret location in Baghdad, the mediator met with members of the group who showed him a grainy video on a cell phone screen of a man they claimed was al-Taie, beaten up and bloody. Then the gang demanded $250,000 from the soldier's family to secure his release. Something didn't seem right, says Qanbar. "The number is too low for a U.S. soldier," he told TIME. It made him wonder if his nephew was even alive...
...only section of a profile remaining active after death is the wall. Posts typically function like the autograph pages of a yearbook. But when a user dies, his wall does not, sometimes growing faster than ever before. People try to contact their dead friends, posting eulogies in the arena most convenient to them—cyberspace...