Word: saids
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...paper before he'd even gotten out of his car. A local bookstore had a waitlist that totaled more than 100 names. Dave Eggers, McSweeney's founder and Panorama's mastermind, was shocked. "I thought there'd be some excitement, but this went beyond anything I expected," he said. With traditional media outlets facing staff cuts, budget restraints and buyouts - 139 newspapers folded in 2009 alone - the demand for Eggers' publication was unprecedented. But then again, the Panorama isn't really a newspaper - just a literary experiment masquerading...
Well, no. But less than a year before, Sarkozy had come to power arguing that principles matter. The irrepressible "hyper-President" has also long said he judges people (and expects to be judged) exclusively on merit and results. But in October he supported his inexperienced 23-year-old son Jean's bid to take over the public body responsible for managing Paris's multibillion dollar La Défense finance district. To make matters worse, even as the accusations of nepotism grew louder, Sarkozy père described his reforms of France's high school system as guaranteeing that "henceforth...
...initially oppose the request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to make the images public but reversed course after advisers convinced him the images could endanger U.S. troops by stoking anti-American sentiment. "We continue to believe that the photos should be released," ACLU legal director Steven Shapiro said. "No democracy has ever been made stronger by suppressing evidence of its own misconduct...
Miller, who treats her singing career as an extracurricular, said she writes songs about things that happen to her and her friends. "Sometimes a phrase just strikes me and I go with it," she said. "I usually come up with words and melodies when I'm in the shower or doing dishes or something, and then when enough words are there I go to a practice room and actually make a song...
...violation of the anthropological code. One Human Terrain anthropologist told the Dallas Morning News that she wasn't worried if the information she provided was used to kill or capture an insurgent. "The reality is, there are people out there who are looking for bad guys to kill," she said. "I'd rather they did not operate in a vacuum." Price and other critics see this as proof that the anthropologists don't have full control over the information they gather and that commanders can use it to kill. "The real fault with Human Terrain is that it doesn...