Word: mr
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...little doubt about who's to blame. In a message dictated two days before his death and read out by his friend Alexander Goldfarb to the press, Litvinenko, 43, said: "You may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life...
...audience among middlebrows who have long since learned the lesson of sexual tolerance. Not many fundamentalists are going to see The History Boys. The problems with it seem to me to lie elsewhere. There is something self-consciously adorable in the writing and playing of Hector. He is Mr. Chips written a little too large and soft - literally so, since Griffiths is an obese man. He needs someone among the students to resist his overbearing but yet rather theatrically conventional nonconformity. And although his end proves a point that Bennett keeps making - that history is largely determined by accident...
...yesterday that the central issue in the case was whether presidents must follow the laws that govern warfare. “This case is not just on military commissions alone,” Katyal said. “The central premise is that if Congress says, ‘Mr. President, you can’t do this,’ he must try to get the law changed and can’t just ignore that law in a series of secret memorandums.” Katyal added that while courts historically defer to the president during wartime, this...
...threatened to fire striking garbage workers, Jimmy Hoffa himself sent an emissary to tell the mayor he wasn't happy. As D'Alesandro's former press secretary Tom J. O'Donnell recounted the story to the Washington Post, "The mayor spoke up and said, 'You go back and tell Mr. Jimmy I'm very unhappy with the garbage piling up on the streets of Baltimore, and I'm not going to stand for it.'" The following Monday, most of the garbagemen were back at work...
...Hello, Mr. President. This is Lazarus speaking." That is how Trent Lott answered a phone call last week from George W. Bush, the man who helped force him out of the Senate's top job in 2002 after Lott praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign. Maybe Lott is selling himself short. After all, Lazarus was in the tomb for only four days, but it took Lott, 65, four years to mount the improbable comeback that culminated in his election last Wednesday as minority whip, the second most powerful G.O.P. position in the Senate. But if Bush, who called...