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...charms had limits. Harriet Miers was stunned to find that being the President's favorite lawyer and running the Texas lottery were not actually qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. The New York Times's Judith Miller learned that you cannot be both a journalist and a de facto member of the Bush Administration. Scooter Libby was informed that fibbing to a grand jury--even if you are Dick Cheney's right-hand man--is not, in the end, a good idea. Baseball players with necks the size of most people's thighs were shocked to discover that...
...ravaged Fallujah ran out of ballots as high voter turnout prompted election officials across Iraq to keep many polling stations open an extra hour. Iraqi insurgents had imposed a de facto cease-fire, with masked members setting up checkpoints west of Baghdad to keep al-Qaeda from bombing voting sites. In addition to this day of relative peace in Iraq--reported attacks were well below average-- the Dec. 15 vote bore another marked contrast to January's violent election day: Sunni Arabs didn't boycott this time and instead turned out en masse, with the hope of tipping the scales...
...spent five years sharing the house with his widowed landlady, Margaret Stevenson, and her daughter, Polly. He returned from Philadelphia and resumed residence there from 1765 to 1775, to present the Assembly's case for making Pennsylvania a Crown colony. During his residence, the house functioned as a de facto U.S. embassy and the center of the American polymath's intellectual and social activities. There he invented the glass armonica, a musical instrument, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style...
...Franklin arrived in London in 1757 as the Pennsylvania Assembly's agent, and apart from a two year gap (during which he returned to Philadelphia) lived there until 1775. During his residence, the house functioned as a de facto U.S. embassy and the center of the American polymath's intellectual and social activities. He entertained Enlightenment thinkers in the sitting room, and in 1775 held negotiations there with William Pitt the Elder. When those failed, he fled London under threat of arrest...
...second installment in the sure-to-stay-dead “Deuce Bigalow” franchise, this little gem of a film finds Rob Schneider’s titular prosti-dude roaming the streets of Amsterdam with his pimp and de facto best friend, T.J. (Eddie Griffin). A mysterious “Man-Whore Killer” is stalking the loverboys of the region, and T.J. is the prime suspect...