Word: days
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...killed in a single Taliban attack, has a profound impact on the home front. "We cannot continue to remain ... where the [local] population is suffering and where we count our dead without asking ... what is France's role and interest," Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry said this month, a day after France lost two more soldiers. "In 2001, then in 2003, France joined NATO troops to continue taking out the Taliban, but above all to reconstruct the country. [But France] now finds our troops alongside the American army essentially in an antiterrorism struggle. This wasn't the NATO mandate...
...press has only expanded since then, but savvy White House media teams now seize on tactics to reach voters directly. George W. Bush spoke before backdrops bearing the day's message (like STRENGTHENING OUR SCHOOLS or the notorious MISSION ACCOMPLISHED). And on Sept. 21, Obama becomes the first sitting President to grace David Letterman's couch--a day after he hits the Sunday-morning news shows. On five networks...
...naive to expect Wikipedia's joyride to last forever. Since its inception in 2001, the user-written online encyclopedia has expanded just as everything else online has: exponentially. Up until about two years ago, Wikipedians were adding, on average, some 2,200 new articles to the project every day. The English version hit the 2 million - article mark in September 2007 and then the 3 million mark in August 2009 - surpassing the 600-year-old Chinese Yongle Encyclopedia as the largest collection of general knowledge ever compiled (well, at least according to Wikipedia's entry on itself...
...Within days of Lehman's failure, it was apparent that the market wasn't up to the task. There was a run on money-market funds after the Reserve Fund (which had pioneered the money-fund business in 1970) revealed that it owned a lot of suddenly worthless Lehman debt. London-based hedge funds that relied on Lehman for day-to-day financing found themselves unable to do business. Similar dislocations played out around the world, and financial institutions became paralyzed by fear and confusion. They simply didn't trust one another anymore and didn't want to lend...
...Harris' day job, for now, is doing brilliant parodies of straight men. In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, he goes to a whorehouse, picks out the largest-fake-breasted woman in the world, has sex with her and brands her with his initials. In How I Met Your Mother, his high-fiving, high-finance character has slept with more than 200 women and spouts catchphrases about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays...