Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...demonstrators seemed more dazed and confused than ready to mount a people power revolution, however. The coalition of 11 political parties that organized the event agreed on so little that they invited no politicians to address the rally lest any one speaker offend the others. But even the anodyne lineup of writers and pop stars wasn't enough to prevent controversy. Several crowd members shouted down performers because they thought playing music offensive to the memory of the soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...Olmert's key rivals, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, are both former prime ministers whose track record in office failed to persuade voters to reelect them. Both men have so far refrained from moving in for the kill, lest they seem overzealous of taking advantage of what was a national calamity. Or perhaps they sense that Olmert has been mortally wounded, and will be unable to survive the Winograd judgment regardless of his own intentions. Not only have his approval ratings crashed to around 2 percent, but he is also under official investigation over allegations of financial misdoings - although these...
...long time now I imagine that we’ll be doing this. Writing songs and playing shows.” This weekend, Bishop Allen returns to their old Cambridge stomping grounds for a show at the Middle East. They now pop where they used to punk, but lest listeners think that their evolution has only been a musical one, they note that beyond Chaucer as well as “Charm School.” “When I was in college, I used to read a book and write a paper about it,” notes...
...immediate path of their cars. Syndrome sufferers often find it irresistible to talk on their cell phones, munch on a sandwich from Whole Foods, or read the Communist Manifesto while tearing up Broadway at 40 miles per hour. I beg of you—fight the urge, lest you end up sending the next Karl Marx to University Health Services. Yes, it may be expected that we walkers look both ways before we cross, but the maddening preponderance of one-way streets in this city has lulled us into complacency...
Sitrick says companies have to be aggressive about responding to bloggers, lest a minor controversy multiply into a major media scandal. Sitrick employs so-called truth squads in sensitive cases, who monitor blogs for items on clients and quickly counter any false rumors...