Word: formers
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MUNTAZER AL-ZAIDI, the Iraqi journalist who spent nine months in prison for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush in 2008, joking after a fellow journalist hurled his shoe at al-Zaidi. The assailant accused him of "working for dictatorship...
ROBERTO PIAZZA, a friend of Solange Magnano, a former Miss Argentina, who died Nov. 29 of a pulmonary embolism after undergoing an elective gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires...
...afternoon in late October, Whitman, 53, was pulling all the jingles out, like clubs from a golf bag. It was the sort of performance that the former CEO of eBay - and newcomer to the whirlpool known as electoral politics - has become almost slick at delivering. She was standing on a platform, microphone in hand, at the edge of a beautiful garden in the wealthy desert enclave of Rancho Mirage, a town described as a "hotbed of GOP cash" by an attendee. She is no longer the frumpy corporate mascot who was once photographed in a beige turtleneck and high-waisted...
...says Lew Uhler, president of the National Tax Limitation Committee, an antitax group, who is supporting one of Whitman's opponents. It takes a vast amount of money to be competitive in California, but the road to Sacramento is littered with the bodies of failed parvenus: Michael Huffington, the former Republican Congressman and ex-husband of Arianna, blew $28 million on a failed Senate bid in 1994; Al Checchi, a former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis...
...more. (She has raised more than $7 million.) She has alarmed longtime GOP hands in the state by burning through her funds at a frightening pace, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly on strategic advisers, pollsters, fundraising experts and a social-networking start-up called Tokoni, founded by former eBay and Skype executives, which is managing her online presence...