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...didn't take a salary for herself. When Hurricane George destroyed the clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of her town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time." -President Obama describing Benjamin's dedication to her community (White House transcript, July...
...Baron Cohen, whose first job after graduating from Cambridge University was as a fashion model, deserves credit for pushing further than he did in Borat. He's beyond brazen in his forced marriage of suicide raids on homophobes and the cartoon mockery of rural Southerners - sort of al-Qaeda and Al Capp. But he and Universal (which paid a hefty $42.5 million for rights to the movie and launched a worldwide marketing campaign that brought the pre-release tab to about $100 million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred...
USAGE: "A group of well-to-do pensioners who lost their savings in the credit crunch staged an arthritic revenge attack and held their terrified financial adviser to ransom [in] the latest example of what is being dubbed 'silver crime'--the violent backlash of pensioners who feel cheated by the world." --Times of London, June...
...know that he was shot - that's all. I was not interested in finding out how he was shot, but whoever that was deserved some credit. The most important thing is that he's no more. I would have preferred to bring him here and have a chat with him. I have never seen this...
...some of your biggest trading partners. Are you worried about jeopardizing those relationships? I don't think they're so petty-minded. They're the people who encouraged us to defeat terrorism. We followed what [George W.] Bush said. We accomplished what he wanted: eliminate terrorism. They must give credit to us. We fought their war. We showed that you can defeat terrorism...