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...people he doesn't even know." The first seven years of Said's life were uneventful: he grew up on his father's olive farm in the village of Beit Ijza near Ramallah. Then, as he tells it in the book, everything changed. In 1981, he says, the Israelis drove his family out and bulldozed their house to make room for a Jewish settlement. "For the first time in my life I felt an undreamed-of anger," Said says. "Hatred rose in me, an extreme hatred for everything Israeli." Said goes on to recount two decades filled with ever-more...
...eight-month sales target in eight weeks." The Gossard campaign was based on a television commercial that urged viewers who wanted a ?1 discount on a G-string to send a text message to "G4me." The company received more than 26,000 messages, and the vouchers - redeemed via SMS - drove up sales significantly, with one online retailer - Figleaves.com - reporting €75,000 worth of Gossard G-string sales as a direct result of the campaign, McKenzie says. Based on their success with G-strings, Gossard is already planning a new SMS campaign for the fall. Phone sex may never...
Frist would rather defer that kind of bitter fight with Democrats until later, but if he angers conservatives, retribution "will be pretty swift and fairly severe," warns Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank. It was conservatives critical of Lott's statements "who really drove him from office," Weyrich maintains. "Frist needs to understand that...
...friend designed a sleekly minimalist logo. Working out of the basement of a house in Georgetown he'd inherited from his grandmother, Plank engaged a New York City garmentmaker to produce 500 T shirts that he called Heat Gear. He tossed them into the trunk of his car and drove to colleges in the East and the South. He made his first sale, for 200 shirts at $12 apiece, to the football team at Georgia Tech...
...game began slowly, but in the third quarter a spectacular series of Centre plays drove the Crimson back from the Colonels’ 17-yard line to Harvard’s 11-yard mark...