Word: pamphleteers
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...just the sermons of radical clerics that brainwash young Thai Muslims. On many of the youths killed on April 28, a 65-page booklet was found. TIME has seen a copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling...
...Republicans are not immune from this sort of thing; many of their talking-points seem as though they were taken straight out of a “Gore-Lieberman 2000” pamphlet. In the midst of the “Republican revolution,” with Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga, in charge and government agencies such as the Department of Education in real danger of being axed, who would have guessed that the next Republican president’s main domestic accomplishments would be more educational spending, a new Cabinet-level agency, and a new Medicare...
DATA GATHERED The computer files contain photographs of the heads of the institutions, as well as a photo of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, who attends annual IMF meetings. A book or pamphlet describing the layout of the World Bank was scanned into the computer in its entirety in February...
...essay ridicules the rigidity and bureaucracy of French management culture by urging readers to exploit it, with helpful chapters like "The Idiots You Work with" and "Why You Risk Nothing by Quitting." Maier is an economist with the state-owned Electricité de France (EDF), and though her pamphlet doesn't mention EDF, executives at the firm are not amused. They've summoned her to an Aug. 17 hearing to examine accusations that her own job performance is not up to scratch. Maier says she won't attend; she'll be on vacation. Meanwhile, a second edition is being rushed...
...great sex scandals of the early Republic. In 1797 a journalist named James T. Callender exposed that Hamilton, while Treasury Secretary and a married man with four children, had entered into a yearlong affair with grifter Maria Reynolds, who was 23 when it began. In a 95page pamphlet, Hamilton confessed to the affair at what many regarded as inordinate length. He wished to show that the money he had paid to Reynolds' husband James had been for the favor of her company and not for illicit speculation in Treasury securities, as the Jeffersonians had alleged. Forever after, the Jeffersonians tagged...