Word: penned
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...March 8, 2007 news article "Grad Dips Her Pen Into the Publishing Business" incorrectly identified the subject of the story as Bridget J. “Bridie” Clark. In fact, her name is Bridie J. Clark...
...Farid Smahi is not a comedian, nor is he blind, although he does confound a stereotype: The son of Algerian parents and a longtime victim of anti-immigrant prejudice, Smahi is a candidate in France's forthcoming legislative election - for the anti-immigrant National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen...
...There is no contradiction in being Arab or black or any other minority and voting Le Pen," argues Smahi, who joined the party a decade ago after having initially backed leftist causes and marching for immigrant rights. "French minorities and banlieue [housing project] residents see they've been manipulated and exploited by both the hypocritical left and sham right for years now. Nothing has changed except the racism. So this time around, expect a lot of people to be casting votes for Le Pen in the hopes that, at last, things may change...
...excuses for the Taliban's tactics, including suicide attacks. "They have proven very useful," he says. "Very effective... Any method that kills the enemy is acceptable. This allows us to spend money, for example, to fight face to face or from a distance, or even fight with the pen. Anything in order to win the war. And if I am killed, I will go to paradise." He adds, "The Taliban will hit anyone who is working with the coalition." He has no doubts about their progress. "All the time we are successful... Fifteen Taliban are equal to one hundred fighters...
...Whether he'll succeed in integrating them into his own electorate is a mystery, as are the intentions of voters in the ethnically mixed suburbs (polling along ethnic lines still being taboo in France). But Le Pen's bulldog growl is not falling entirely on deaf ears in the suburbs. "We've been waiting for someone to say, 'If you're French above all, you're welcome and have a place among us,'" says Habiba, who contrasts Le Pen's appeal with that of mainstream politicians who "keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal...