Word: libbed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...becois, but the Bixi public bike system has been in place in Paris for more than a year. I'm sure Parisians would be miffed to find that a city - Montreal - that appropriated their language is now getting credit for a bike system, known in Paris as Vélib', that has already met with acclaim across Europe. Jonah Peppiatt, Boston...
...most performers, he has enough fresh material to make each of the appearances included in the movie seem as if he were giving a new speech every night. His jolly, intimate style sells every zinger to audiences who would have bought his line anyway. He's also an ad-lib adept. When one clutch of Catholic protesters recites the Our Father and Hail Mary aloud during a rally, Moore asks them, "You're not gonna do the whole rosary, are ya?" and then the more pertinent, "What did Jesus bomb?" The movie leaves little doubt that if Kerry had been...
...Bruni, and her sister, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, had lobbied the President not to extradite the gravely ill Petrella to Rome - it even fell to the sisters to personally break the news of that reprieve to the former terrorist. "We could not let this woman die," Bruni told the daily Libération Monday in explaining her intervention in Petrella's case. "The situation had become intolerable, dangerous...
...gloating or giving lessons this time around. "Yes, the crisis is really here - in Europe as well, meaning France," wrote Didier Pourquery in the left-leaning daily Libération's editorial Friday. "We're going to pay, and because we're entering a phase of economic slowing, it's going to cost dearly...
...concentrated in the same hands," said Bayrou. Rossi's punishment - the interior ministry says the official's "error in judgment" has resulted in his transfer to a new post - and similar measures in the past that benefited Sarkozy's friends, are "princely whims" according to Bayrou. Leftist daily Libération quoted officials involved in the case who said Sarkozy was infuriated by the invasion and "ordered the person responsible fired...