Word: penned
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...Reports that Jennifer Aniston will pen a tell-all book about ex Brad Pitt and his paramour Angelina Jolie were denied by Aniston's publicist, only to be replaced with more riveting news: the former Friend is the newest spokeswoman for Smartwater. "Need to hydrate that bank account!" quips celeb watcher PEREZ HILTON. SCORE...
...most part, his major writings and speeches, which by all accounts are the work of his pen alone, are consistently clear and often quite potent. But more and more, it seems, there will be some sentence or citation - or a blatant omission - that inadavertently ignites controversy, if not outright rage against the Pope. The Vatican eventually kicks into damage-control mode, and finally, Benedict is left with the awkward task of serious papal (and public) backtracking. Indeed, there was a "here-we-go-again" buzz circulating among Vatican insiders as the Pope went out of his way this week...
...must say at the outset that I am loath to pen my name to yet another piece on the man. Critics understand that our judgments often take on lives of their own—write too much about somebody, and you risk spurring a dozen contrarians to their defense. Or one might draw attention to bad ideas. But I make an exception in the case of Cornel West, where I feel the truth cannot be repeated often enough. Cornel West raps like a 12-year old girl...
...taunted for days. Another former prisoner, Mohammed Unis Hassan, was arrested by U.S. forces for looting a bank last July. He told TIME of a seven-month odyssey through the prison system that included beatings, humiliation and soldiers having sex with female detainees. At the Baghdad airport holding pen, he laughed at interrogators who asked if he knew which terrorists were exploding bombs. When he failed to provide information, they beat him with a cable or a riot stick on the back of the legs. He saw U.S. soldiers strip the clothes off a fellow inmate and put their feet...
...eavesdropping program. Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was incapacitated by pancreatitis. Like his boss, Comey had come to believe that President George W. Bush's surveillance program was illegal. The White House wanted it renewed. Comey refused. And so who turned up at Ashcroft's bedside with pen and paper in search of the Attorney General's signature? White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. Summoning his strength, Ashcroft lifted his head from his pillow, affirmed his support for Comey and refused Gonzales' request. Facing the threat of a mass resignation by senior law-enforcement officials, including Ashcroft, Comey...