Word: requesters
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...Sawyer. Celebrities were warm to her because she was married to director Mike Nichols, the world's most genial man. Hard-news guests appreciated her résumé of serious journalism, which includes stints on 60 Minutes and Primetime Live. Plus, she's a legendarily hard worker. (A request for an interview - she must have gotten hundreds - was met with a polite personal e-mail: "I'm not talking right now but will remember you called.") As a booker at a rival show said, "My job is about to get a little easier." (Read TIME's 1989 cover story...
...policy” of withholding information. The police department holds reports—part of the public record—and usually makes them available only for in-person inquiries. As part of an informal agreement with the Chronicle, the department faxes reports to the newspaper upon request. In both cases, the department reviews the documents and redacts any information that might conflict with an ongoing investigation, said the police department’s legal adviser Kelly Downes. Downes said that in this regard, the department is acting within Massachusetts public records law. “We have not changed...
...necessity; the bar had accidentally received a shipment of wings (instead of other chicken parts) and didn't know what to do with them. However, Bellissimo's son, Dominic, disputed his father's story. Dominic claimed that the wings were an impromptu midnight snack Teressa created on his request; he had been drinking with friends and asked his mother to whip up something for them to eat. The stories don't necessarily contradict each other - perhaps Teressa decided to serve her son some of the extra chicken wings from the mistaken shipment - but all three Bellissimo family members have since...
...fall semester, Barreira plans on comparing this year’s numbers to last year’s to see if the increase in cost has affected the number of students who request tutoring...
...That's surely a reassuring thought for McChrystal, bunkered down in Kabul. He knows the number of additional troops he may request needs to be as small as possible. That's why he has ordered his subordinates to look into whether some troops that are performing administrative or logistical tasks - perhaps as many as 10,000 - could be replaced with trigger pullers. That would give McChrystal more firepower without boosting troop levels. And the Army is expected to issue contracts before year's end to private firms to guard 50 or more U.S. bases in Afghanistan and the convoys that...