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This means that, while he didn't dare speak out on behalf of persecuted writers like Babel, Mandelstam or Anna Akhmatova during the Stalin years, Ehrenburg worked assiduously to resurrect their reputations in the more lenient Khrushchev period. As Rubinstein documents, Ehrenburg used his position as the Soviet writer best known to the Western intelligentsia in order to blackmail the censors: he would repeatedly announce the publication of a controversial book or article, then protest that its failure to appear due to censorship would reflect badly on the Soviet regime in the West...
...work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!" She called the activist a nobody, but ordered Wal-Mart to sever ties with the factory...
...High Roller, is a mild high, a fifth of a mile high. The coaster circles the pod three times in just under a minute, reaching a granny-at-the-wheel top speed of 35 m.p.h. That's fast enough to italicize the giddiness and slow enough for you to dare to look out on the Vegas panorama. Toward the end the track climbs; your car takes a few nice, scary jolts--and you briefly join Stupak in his nightmare...
North Korea, I dare to say, is like a spoiled child, who, every time he senses that the adults around him somehow begin to ignore his presence, makes some annoying noise to demand their immediate attention until he gets satisfied. And we all know that sometimes a spoilt child can get very nasty...
Representative Charlie Rose couldn't resist flavoring his arguments with some old-fashioned red scare tactics. Declaring that an end to supports would open the door to Cuban sugar, the North Carolina Democrat demanded to know, "How dare this House bring pleasure to Fidel Castro?" The Congressman will be happy to discover that the existing trade embargo against Cuba will deny any such solace...