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...University of Georgia who describes herself as a "geeky child" who always had an interest in writing and language. She started the blog in 2005 as an occasional record of the bad grammar she encountered in day-to-day life, but the blog tapped a nerve. After the Associated Press discovered the site in 2007, Keeley recalls, she began receiving hundreds of submissions from around the world every day. Some particularly egregious examples: questionable "freshness," confused signage and ... this...
...Associated Press, which put the deal at $6 million, reported that Katherine Jackson, who is not an executor of the estate, may have wanted the memorabilia tour put out for competitive bids. As it is, Weitzman says, the AEG-owned Arts and Exhibitions International, which recently organized an international showcase featuring the relics of King Tut, has been contracted to handle the King of Pop's wares on the road. Weitzman also hints that there is more to come. "It would be an understatement to say that there's a lot we're working on," he says. "All that...
...would you describe your consulting colleagues? Somewhat different from your philosophy classmates, I would guess. Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press, sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people. But at the tip of the profession, the people who make it to a high level in élite consulting firms are, on the whole, nutty. They are driven beyond what is healthy and, at some level, quite unbalanced. At the firm I helped to found they went out and hired a group of psychotherapists. What other occupation would think it natural to spend half a million...
...country.) But Mohamed Bary and his wife Aysha adamantly insist it is "completely false" that they ever threatened to kill Rifqa over her conversion. "We love her; we want her back. She is free to practice her religion, whatever she believes in. That's O.K.," Mohamed told the Associated Press last week...
Deputy speaker of parliament Khalid al-Attiya tried to radiate calm and unity at a press conference after the special session. "I have a message to all of the brothers, the journalists, and all the politicians," Attiya said, "What has happened is so big and sad and it reached all of the Iraqi people in all its factions, because this act didn't target the government or a specific sect in Iraq, or the security apparatus performance, or other blocks in the parliament. But this targeted all the Iraqi people." He went on to say that Iraqis "should stand...