Word: russ
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...elected attorney general. She and Chertoff know each other from their days as federal prosecutors and have worked together on immigration matters. And Chertoff is already signaling his support for her, which will help assure her a smooth confirmation. "Secretary Chertoff thinks very highly of Governor Napolitano," says spokesman Russ Knocke, "and considers her a personal friend...
...Damiano said that after the success of Deep Throat, "If people wanted to interview me because I was a porno filmmaker, I just was not interested in talking to them." There had been gifted directors - Radley Metzger, Russ Meyer - making softcore in the '60s, but Damiano had higher ambitions. He wanted to be Ingmar F---in' Bergman...
...million U.S. users (17 million of whom already listen to music regularly on the site), Imeem is relatively unpopulated. It has about six million unique visitors in the U.S. and 17 million worldwide, according to Quantcast. "They have a dedicated but very small constituency," notes NPD entertainment analyst Russ Krupnick. Part of the problem is Imeem's jumbled interface, which is so focused on community that it's not immediately obvious what the site is even about. Part of it is legacy: Imeem, which was co-founded by engineers from the original Napster music service, struggled early on and even...
...while critics who have called MSNBC the official network of Barack Obama weren't far wrong, Maddow is no cheerleader. During the primaries she assiduously avoided favoring either Clinton or Obama and has said that neither was her ideal candidate. (She'd have been totally committed to a Russ Feingold...
...whole McCain-Feingold thing." Says New Hampshire's Bob Smith, a former Republican Senator who tangled with McCain: "He did get shafted, and he never really got over it. I think he said, I'm on my own now." The Keating ordeal led McCain to team up with Democrat Russ Feingold on soft-money restrictions - not only to attack political corruption but also to remove what he saw as a cloud hanging over honorable politicians...