Word: dans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. The Banquet Bug, which won enthusiastic reviews...
...person who's going to be carefully scripted," says chief of staff Joshua Bolten, "but it's a very small price to pay for having someone who is brilliant at capturing and articulating the essence of the policy message." Or at least, getting that message out. White House counselor Dan Bartlett says he has noticed a marked uptick in how much of the press secretary's briefing gets replayed on the nightly news and throughout cable since Snow took the job in April. "If he's not being quoted," says Bartlett, "then usually one of our critics...
...Allen "could have ignored my questions," he wrote in the e-mail. "Instead he and his thugs chose violence." Allen's spokesman, Dan Allen (no relation) said Stark pushed him, inciting the incident, and noted that Stark is a liberal blogger who had shouted questions at a previous event for Senator Allen...
...aging Senate incumbent. Welcome to the new politics. Jeremy Larner, who won an Oscar for his screenplay, had been Eugene McCarthy's chief speechwriter in the 1968 campaign. His insider's take was a cautionary tale of such subtlety that it sailed over the heads of some viewers--like Dan Quayle, who said the movie inspired him to be a politician...
...unable to even register such cases, officials say kidnapping has become an increasingly lucrative business. It helps the kidnappers that their criminal activity is often confused with the routine hostage taking by both sides in the Shi'ite-Sunni civil war. "Kidnapping for ransom is an industry," says Dan O'Shea, former coordinator of the U.S. embassy's Hostage Working Group. "It is governed by the profit motive, not religion or race or politics...